How To Avoid Email Filters That Prevent Responsible Emails
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How To Avoid Email Filters That Prevent Responsible Emails
Author: Dave Tan
Copyright: Thursday, April 15th, 2004
Email is no doubt one of the most effective form of
communication. Virtually anyone with Internet Access
must have at least an email account. Email messages
can be sent to anywhere in the world, to any email
address, and cost almost next to nothing except
for your Internet access fee.
This form of communication certainly gives small
/ home business owners a highly advantageous point
to compete with larger corporation on the net for
a piece of their well deserved share of the market.
In case you haven't notice already, it's getting
harder than ever to get your email messages or
newsletters delivered correctly to your
subscribers now. With all those fancy spam-killer
and anti-spam filter softwares, as a legitimate
and responsible webmaster / publisher we are
seriously affected in the process and thus have
to do double work just to get our newsletters
delivered properly. Why?
Recipients with SPAM filter software installed
in their email accounts will filter out any
messages that it *think* may be SPAM. The filter
software will scan through your messages and
search for the most obvious trigger (SPAM)
words like: money, sex, guarantee, unsubscribe,
etc...I'm sure you get the idea.
This is actually very outrageous as most of the
words filtered our are actually important words
that are indispensable to writing an effective
email messages / newsletter. If your email
messages contained any trigger words, the spam
filter software will either put your email
messages into the bulk folder or bounce back
entirely. Seriously, who will even bother to
open the bulk folder and read through each
messages?
Fortunately, there's a workable solution to
this problem...let's take a look at the
following examples.
Example 1: FREE is one of the trigger words
you should avoid using.
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Get your FREE report on how to avoid spam filters.
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Example 2: FR*EE however is not same as FREE, is it?
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Get your FR*EE report on how to avoid spam filters.
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That's right, you can disguise those important
triggers words just by inserting a simple keyboard
symbol but be sure that you do not overdo it and
make it too cryptic that your readers can't understand.
Note: This is not a 100 percent solution that your
email will not be filtered out but it's sure better
than using the word FREE directly only to have your
email sent to the bulk folder and deleted later.
That's why it's always better to test your email
messages / newsletter thoroughly before sending
them to your subscribers. Luckily I've recently
came across a website that will check your email
message content for FREE and tells you how it
ranks in Spam Assassin.
All you have to do is copy your email messages
and paste it into the huge textbox. They will
check your email messages and send you an email
report within minutes.
That's all for this article, good luck at getting
a lower score in Spam Assassin by the way! :-)
Best Regards,
Dave Tan
www.eBookOK.com
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