Avoiding Gmail Spam After the Latest Security Update

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If it was hard for you to stay out of Gmail spam before, it may be increasingly more difficult for you after Gmail’s latest security update. In an attempt to protect users from spam, junk mail, phishing emails, and other malware, Gmail implemented a new security mechanism that identifies potentially harmful messages from unauthenticated senders. These warnings appear directly within …

Email Authentication: the Ultimate Guide

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Email authentication is becoming a big deal. Authentication allows the mailbox provider to confirm that the sender is the one who he pretends to be. If authentication fails, the emails are likely to be filtered as spam or rejected. Related Posts Many marketers think of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and email marketing as separate strategies. One is about optimizing content …

Email Delivery Basics: 3 Fundamental Email Concepts Explained

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In this post, I give a little bit of theory about email delivery so that you can get a general idea about email concepts, good and bad sending habits, and email spam checker tools you can use to monitor your reputation and deliverability and determine possible causes of deliverability issues if they happen. Related Posts Many marketers think of SEO …

5 Reasons You Need to Grow Your Email List Organically in 2023

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Deliverability is the cherished dream of email marketers. You only waste your time and money that you spent for preparing and sending an email campaign if your email doesn’t reach your subscriber’s Inbox. GlocApps tracks and reports on deliverability with its Inbox and spam rate metric. Very few email marketers achieved the Inbox Placement rates of at least 90%. The …

12 Questions You Should Be Asking If You Have Deliverability Issues

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Email marketing is the most convenient means of reaching new and existing customers and subscribers throughout the year. Companies and online marketers can send email marketing campaigns to introduce their products and services, showcase new features, promote their blogs, and give exclusive offers to re-engage customers who haven’t been active in a while. Related Posts Many marketers think of SEO …

Advanced Email Analytics

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3 Things You Need To Know About Bounced Emails and FBL Email Handling

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Handling of bounce emails and feedback loops is a part of best email marketing practices. And there is a solid ground for this. Ignoring bounce and FBL emails lead to serious consequences from bad sender reputation to blacklisting issues and problems with email deliverability. Related Posts Many marketers think of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and email marketing as separate strategies. …

14 Real Tips to Avoid Email Deliverability Issues

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You spend a lot of time designing a beautiful branded email template, polishing up your email copy, and crafting a teasing and enticing subject line that should skyrocket your email open and click-through rate. But before pressing the Send button, did you think that your subscribers might not even get the opportunity to see your email? Related Posts Many marketers …

Understanding Deliverability Metrics

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Many email marketers are mistakenly assured in their ability to reach their recipients when they observe a high delivery rate. But what the “delivery rate” term actually means is the number of sent emails that did not return as a hard or soft bounce. In reality, a delivered email could end up in the Inbox, or spam box, or could …

Everything You Should Know about Spam Complaints

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No one is safe from spam complaints. Complaints can happen even to good marketers who are sending to permission-based email lists. The complaint rate used to be underestimated, but the recent research shows that 20% of deliverability issues were caused by a lot of spam complaints. The complaint rate is calculated as the number of “report spam/junk” complaints out of emails sent. For example, the 0.1% complaint rate is considered acceptable and often seen among good senders, but the 0.5% rate is already too high.

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