Category Archives: avoid spam filters

Email Delivery Jedi On Google+

UPDATE: Niche-ing out my sites now on G+.
First up is my WordPress, Website Security and Email Delivery site.
https://plus.google.com/b/113198487085205492763/
While I love G+ biz pages, I am looking forward to better marketing tools soon.
Cool page, but how do I convert followers there to where I really want to drive my traffic which is here?
http://emaildeliveryjedi.com/ … ?
There really [...]

Facebook Email Invites

Facebook Email by invite only, non friends are blocked by default and more…
Zuckerberg says “But it’s not email…”

“It’s not e-mail. It handles e-mail in addition to Facebook messages, and Facebook IM, and other IM and SMS and all the other different ways that you want to communicate,” Zuckerberg said. “It’s true, people are going to [...]

Facebook Email Inbox – New Delivery Nightmare?

A Facebook email delivery process makes me shiver even in sunny Arizona, here’s why….
Before you label this as Facebook bashing and bounce, I want to make it clear this is about email delivery, it has nothing to do with Facebook, this is about Getting your email to the Inbox.
With TechCrunch’s Friday rumor that Facebook will [...]

How To Screw Up Your Email Delivery

How To Screw Up Your Email Delivery, confuse your subscribers and get stuck in spam filters in one quick email or less
I do a lot of local speaking here in Phoenix where we have decided to settle for now.
So I get a lot of email from the MeetUp groups I participate in. But today [...]

The New Gmail Spam Filter

The Gmail new spam filter is really Google Friend Connect, disguised as a friends list the levels of permission now available in Gmail is a very effective spam filter.
This is an excerpt from my social marketing members only site. This is the kind of thinking and leading edge use of GFC you will find there.
This [...]

Trend Micro blocking my site, my PayPal forms, my URLs, Emails & Trend Micro Spam Filters

Due to Trend Micro blocking my site, my PalPal redirect forms, my emails in Trend Micro spam filters and my URLs in emails and web traffic requests I can now advise you on how not to make this mistake. Don’t let this happen to you.
Trend Micro will block your site in the browser, block your [...]

I Just Marked My Own Email As Spam and Why

I was just in Gmail and went to click the delete button on one of my own emails that arrives there as a test.
Since the delete button is only a quarter inch from the spam button, I, in a hurry I clicked the wrong one. I had just marked my own message as spam.

I [...]

Virginia Court Declares Anti-Spam Law Unconstitutional

The court unanimously agreed with Jeremy Jaynes’ argument that the law violates free-speech and overturns spammer conviction, setting the stage for a Supreme Court spam laws showdown!
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Supreme Court declared the state’s anti-spam law unconstitutional Friday and reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world’s most [...]

Do I Need to Include My Autoresponders SPF Record in My DNS?

Email Delivery: Should I Add My Autoresponder’s SPF Records to My Domain?
I recently ran across a post that claimed that by adding the SPF records of the writers autoresponder (in this case AWeber) that he expected to get past being blocked by a Canadian ISP. This is complete crap because any authentication technology associates the [...]

New CAN SPAM provisions

New CAN SPAM provisions released, not anything ground breaking
• An email recipient cannot be required to pay a fee, provide information other than his or her email address and opt-out preferences, or take any steps other than sending a reply email message or visiting a single Web page to opt out of [...]