Aweber is celebrating their 10th anniversary. To those who are not familiar with Aweber, it’s one of the best email auto respond and email newsletter management service.
Aweber is in use by many webmasters and affiliate marketers including me

In the last year Aweber introduced a new analytics tool. It a nice tool for those who would like to take more out of their lists.

I am sure that Aweber will continue to develop their system and to come with more new features. Allow me to share with you my Aweber wish list for their 11th year of service.
My wish list is very short. Only two features that I am sure lots of my colleague will be very happy to use:

To receive the user data in the confirmation success page
The first one is very fundamental. Unfortunately in spite of many request from many more Aweber users this feature is not supported yet. As for now, Aweber allow you to get the user data in what so called the “thank you page”. It’s the page where the user is been direct after he entered his details, including his email address. At that point the user was not confirmed as a valid user. Aweber encourage the use of double opt-in. That means that a confirmation email will been sent to the user with a special link that he need to click on. By clicking this link Aweber confirms the user email address. After the user click on this link the user is been direct to a page of your choice. Unfortunately to that page Aweber does not send the user data.

As a result, if you would like to integrate Aweber in your system and to respond only to verified users, you can not do that!
Given the fact that Aweber encourage the use of double opt-in I find this lack very odd.

Aweber API
Yes, we all would be very happy if Aweber will give us an API to work with.
An API (Application Program Interface) will help to automate some of the actions that most of us doing by hand: Importing new users from other systems, removing users from a list, etc.  An API will give us more creative ways to integrate Aweber in our systems. It will allow creating more creative ways to add new subscribers.

I emailed my notes to Aweber. You are welcome to leave your comment here. What you would like to be added to Aweber service?

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