Email Marketing Capture Forms & Notifications

Audience: ScaleBlogger users growing a subscriber list from their website and automating subscriber emails.

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Overview

Capture forms collect email addresses from visitors to your site, and notifications email your subscribers automatically when you publish content. Both live under Marketing → Email Marketing (Capture Forms and Notifications) and require the same Business-plan Email Marketing entitlement as campaigns.

Creating a capture form

On Capture Forms, click New Form and configure:

• Name and Website — forms belong to one of your websites.
• Form type — Popup, Inline, Bar, or Slide-in.
• Trigger type — Exit Intent, Scroll % (set the percentage), Timer (set a delay in seconds), or Immediate.
• Headline, Description, CTA text, and Success message — the copy visitors see.
• Display frequency — Once per session, Once per day, Once ever, or Always.
• Active — toggle the form on or off without deleting it.

Installing the widget

Each website gets a site key, created automatically the first time you open the embed panel. Copy the snippet and paste it before the closing </body> tag of your site:

<script src="https://app.scaleblogger.com/widget/email-capture.js" data-site-key="YOUR_SITE_KEY"></script>

One snippet serves every active form for that website, so you do not need to re-embed when you add or edit a form. Addresses collected by the widget appear on the Subscribers page with the source Widget, and can be targeted from segments using a rule on Source.

Automated notifications

The Notifications page controls two automated emails:

Notification	What it does	Timing
Blog Published	Emails your subscribers whenever you publish a new article.	On publish
Weekly Digest	Sends a weekly summary of your published content.	Your chosen day at 9:00 AM UTC

Each notification has an on/off switch, and the Weekly Digest lets you pick the day of the week. Recent activity is listed underneath with a status of sent, failed, or skipped.

Testing a notification

The Send test button writes a test entry to the notification log with the status skipped — it does not deliver a real email. Real emails go out when you actually publish an article (Blog Published) or when the weekly digest job runs.

Best practices

1. Start with Exit Intent or a scroll trigger around 50% so the form appears after a visitor has engaged.
2. Use Once per session or Once per day to avoid annoying repeat visitors.
3. Keep the headline and CTA specific about what subscribers receive.
4. Deactivate a form instead of deleting it if you only want to pause it.
5. Check the notification log after publishing to confirm your subscribers were emailed.