03/17/2022
Sending reputation, simply put, determines whether or not your email ends up in the destination inbox or a spam filter. A poor or damaged sending reputation takes proper planning and strategy to repair, and it is not by any means an impossible task.
To maintain a healthy sending reputation, here are some key things to keep in mind:
🚫 Do not purchase email lists
Sending content to email addresses that are not expecting content from you is one of the easiest ways to be flagged as spam.
🛁 Maintain list hygiene
Sending to inactive email addresses is a sure way to hurt your sending reputation. SMTP has a built-in Reputation Defender to help with this, doing much of the work for you.
🌼 Keep your email content fresh
With more than 333 billion emails sent and received each day, its safe to say you have some competition in any inbox. Do your best to stand out by keeping your content relevant and appealing to your audience.
✔️ Use double opt-in for your email lists
This greatly improves the odds that each email on your list is active and, most importantly, ensures that the owner of each email address fully agrees to receive messages from you.
🌡️ Warm up your sending domain before sending bulk emails
A common mistake is sending content regularly to one's entire email list right away. There is a strategy to warm up a domain properly, which we can help with.
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Need help improving a bad email sending reputation? We’ve put together some essential tips to get you started.