Comments on: Boost Email Deliverability to the Recipient’s Inbox

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:29:37 +0000

Are you sure that adding to an address book will notify the ISP involved?

As far as I understand it, if you’re using a client email tool (say, Outlook for example) adding an address to your contact list will indeed stop mail going to your junk folder if and when it arrives. However, it does nothing to help the delivery of mail that has been blocked by your ISP because it is deemed junk or unsuitable, which is what SPF and Domainkeys tries to help with.

If the recipient is using web mail then, yes, I would agree that the ISP then has access to that information and can act on it accordingly if they wish to.

By: Vikram

Vikram — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:31:30 +0000

Some tips from marketing point of view, here are couple of more from tech point of view –

1. If you are not using aweber or emailaces or any such program and looking to use your own server to send mails, make sure your MX record settings are right. It has happened to me once when one of my MX record setting was wrong and the mails were not getting delivered and I never realized its due to MX settings.

2. Yahoo mail most likely will be sending your mails to spam folder. so check your server headers and settings. For tech savy guys, start from here http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailservers.html (NO, this is NOT my site)

By: Medical Assistant Jobs

Medical Assistant Jobs — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:45:13 +0000

The whitelisting request is a normal email marketing practice and one of the things that differ good email marketers from spammers. Go to your spam folder and look spam emails through. Did you find many emails asking you to add their sender email to your address book? I guess not, if any. Spammers don’t usually request their email address to be whitelisted.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:31:43 +0000

I just received an email from a company with a “no reply” email address – and I will admit I was taken aback. I wanted to email them with a question and I had to go back to the original website and find the contact form. I agree, the “no reply” email address is not good business.

Thanks for the free double optin list manager. Very helpful!

By: Rob@wrist watches

Rob@wrist watches — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:06:11 +0000

Thanks Julia, the “add to address book” tip is a quality one. To be honest, I have been struggling to consistently build by email list for longer than I’m willing to admit. And whenever I start to see some progress the continual unsubscribers bring me back down again. I’ll give this a go though, on paper it sounds like it’ll work. But Julia, if it doesn’t then I blame you

By: marco@cure termali abano terme

marco@cure termali abano terme — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:39:05 +0000

I think the “add to address book” is a great idea, but at the same time I don’t think it will be so easy to push people to do that. Ideally an automated process with a one click button operation should do the trick, but again too many different email clients etc. etc.
Anyway it is a starting point

By: Peter@Zakelijke Lening

Peter@Zakelijke Lening — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:10:08 +0000

I’ve had some nasty experiences with SPAM in the past, once because of bad software and once because of an incorrect verification process. The one you’re advising is probably best. It’s a little more hassle for someone to opt-in twice, but it makes sure they get your e-mail… which is the reason they’ve signed up in the first place.

By: Angela@Backlinks

Angela@Backlinks — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:41:39 +0000

That is a great suggestion; one I had never even thought of. I always do the “spam check” think and hope and pray that all my emails will go into the inbox and not the spam folder. But I hadn’t thought of adding a “add to adresss book” option to my messages or my opt in.