MailChimp users: you can build a “newsletter archive” page on your website that gets automatically updated whenever you send a new campaign. It’s called the “Campaign Archive Folder” and it’s totally free with every MailChimp account. All you have to do is add a little snippet of code to your web page.
Here’s how to do it…
Once you have a page that links to all your archived newsletters, you should place a link to this archive page in your welcome emails. That way, new subscribers can always see your most recent campaigns. You might also want to place a link to your archive right on your signup form, so people can “see past issues” before they decide to signup.
Speaking of campaign archives, we just enhanced them in two ways:
Very, very cool. Love you guys!
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This is great. Very well explained and easy to do.
Two things I’d like to point out for others however:
1) this list is being generated using javascript, so on browsers that don’t have javascript (such as on a Blackberry) this content won’t be visible.
2) because the list is generated by javascript these links are not indexable by search engines, such as google.
3) the list produced by the code snippet, outputs the date and title (linked) of each campaign. The date is output in the MM/DD/YYYY format.
For some of us that’s unconventional, and may lead to confusion! Would be great if you could specify a DD/MM/YYYY format.
otherwise, great!
Yeah, that’s really very cool.
But I’m with Charlie Ward: The date is in the wrong format for Europeans like me.
Please give us the possibility to change the date!
Is the archive in any way searchable?
Not yet, and there’s no timeline for this, but it’s on the to-do list.
Could this archive ‘obey’ list segmentation? That is, would it create a separate link for each segment, in order to keep non-related campaigns from being archived together?
Cheers,
Wil
Brilliant. Thanks for the amazing video tutorials.
Long live Mailchimp!
The archives feature is great to have, but there’s a major shortcoming (previously mentioned in the forums at the link above). When viewing the archived copy of an email, any date-related merge tags (“INSERT DATE HERE”) will show today’s date, not the mailing date.
This is confusing because emails are listed by mailing date on the archive index page, but visitors will then see a different date when clicking through to the actual email. And good luck printing out back issues of your newsletters without getting confused. This drawback is also preventing us from including dynamic dates in embedded advertisement code in our newsletter templates.
It’s true that there isn’t really one universal date and time for each newsletter issue per se, because of MC’s TimeWarp feature. But the archive ought to at least parse date/time merge tags using the proper mailing date – fixed at midnight, for example.
This is a very important feature, thanks for adding it.
Has he archive been made searchable yet?
Over the years, this idea has dropped off our priorities list, but not off our radar. We’re still considering it.
Rather than a list, how can I embed the actual campaign newsletter right in table/cell right on my webpage. What’s the code for that? That way it can display the latest right in my website.
Thanks so much for mailchimp!
Is there a way to host the campaign archive on your own server / site?
That’s a common question, and I think the folks at Chimpexpress.com are working on the answer. Meantime, have you considered creating the content on your site first, but then passing it over to MailChimp? A couple concepts are discussed here: http://blog.mailchimp.com/never-use-mailchimps-wysiwyg-again/
Broken video. Not loading in Firefox or Chrome.
That’s such an old, embarrassing video, I *wish* it was truly broken. Alas, it’s working for me. If you need instructions for embedding the signup form, try this KB article:
http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-can-i-add-my-signup-form-on-my-website
(no horrible footage or me there)
Well, I’m an IT guy, so I figured it out.
I clicked around until I found the feature (nicely hidden in plain sight) on the Campaigns page. Then I had to figure out that I needed to add my Campaigns to a Folder. Then I was able to get the list displaying on a page on the website.
All with just a hint that the feature existed – somewhere.
Nice stuff. I am curious how this works with RSS driven campaigns.
Thank you.
This is absolutely brilliant! Thank you for this feature, and this tutorial.