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 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Part of avoiding spam filters is using other forms of social media.
If you have ever wondered how blogs get those cool Technorati buttons on their site, here it is.
Create a log in, or log in to Technorati, then go thru the “claim blog” process. Once you are done it will provide you with the code [...]
Avoiding spam filters today is like building a house of cards, a few wrong moves can bring it all down.
Yeah, I hate to tell you but your email delivery is VERY fragile. There are quite a few things that can cause disaster in email delivery, losses in profits, subscribers and even your domain. Take a [...]