Blacklists are the black horse of doom for internet marketers around the globe. Nothing is worse than setting up your email campaign for Christmas only to find that your server has been blacklisted and all your hard work is landing squarely in the spam folder. If you are new to e-mail marketing, you might be wondering what this dreaded blacklist is, and how to avoid it - that, we can help you with.
Here are the steps to not get blacklisted:
There are hundreds of blacklists that are operated by a variety of parties making it much harder to get off the blacklist if you are unfortunate enough to end up there. The best thing to do is find out why you are on the black list and take measures to avoid it in the future.
If you have purchased a list and did not build that initial rapport, another thing that you can do is not sell to your list from the get go. You should probably just send information and build trust. From that trust you can start blasting out emails that they will open and not mark as spam. Another thing that this does is allows the big email companies to learn to trust your IP and to whistle you are a trusted sender of email.
The best thing to do is to use a blacklist monitoring site to help you make sure you aren't listed anywhere. This will help you resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Investing in dedicated hosting is another measure you can take, as if you are sharing an IP with several sites and one is black listed that will bleed over to you as well.
Blacklisting serves a great purpose, to keep spam out of the inbox but of course you aren't sending spam. Hopefully, you are sending email to alert potential customers about products and services that are valuable to them.
Here are the steps to not get blacklisted:
There are hundreds of blacklists that are operated by a variety of parties making it much harder to get off the blacklist if you are unfortunate enough to end up there. The best thing to do is find out why you are on the black list and take measures to avoid it in the future.
If you have purchased a list and did not build that initial rapport, another thing that you can do is not sell to your list from the get go. You should probably just send information and build trust. From that trust you can start blasting out emails that they will open and not mark as spam. Another thing that this does is allows the big email companies to learn to trust your IP and to whistle you are a trusted sender of email.
The best thing to do is to use a blacklist monitoring site to help you make sure you aren't listed anywhere. This will help you resolve the problem as quickly as possible. Investing in dedicated hosting is another measure you can take, as if you are sharing an IP with several sites and one is black listed that will bleed over to you as well.
Blacklisting serves a great purpose, to keep spam out of the inbox but of course you aren't sending spam. Hopefully, you are sending email to alert potential customers about products and services that are valuable to them.
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