Now to create the next new page on your website -- the Confirmation Page.

By default MailChimp does confirm that every person who has signed up through the opt-in form on your site (ie subscriber) has actually given their permission.

MailChimp does have a default confirmation page.

However, it is far better for you to keep the visitor on your site than to send them off to MailChimp and possibly loose them forever.

The purpose of the Confirmation page is to alert your new subscriber to check their email.

This page should not appear in your menu, so be sure to use the Exclude Pages from Navigation plugin and UNCHECK the box "Include this page in lists of pages"

In addition, DO NOT be concerned with keywords.

This page serves only 1 purpose, to alert your new subscriber to check their email. That is all.

Back in MailChimp, assuming you are still on the Embedded forms page, just click on "Signup forms" then click on "General forms"

Now on the dropdown menu below "Create Forms" select "Signup "thank you" page"

In the box below "Instead of showing this thank you page, send subscribers to another URL" insert the "Shortlink" from your confirmation page and save.

Now that the Confirmation page is ready, time to consider the email that is sent out automatically to your new subscriber.

MailChimp has a standard email that gets sent out.

You can modify it to make it more personal.

To do so, click on the dropdown menu under "Create Forms" and select "Opt-in confirmation email"

As you move your mouse over the boxes in the body of the email, "edit" boxes will appear that you can click on and edit the text.

Be sure to save your newly entered text.