Monday, September 04, 2006

Are You Spamming - Part II - Check Your Work

Spam is a bigger and bigger problem nowadays. Recently Ralph Wilson, Paul Myers, and other Net marketing gurus have written about the problems that spam is causing honest, hard working Net marketers.

Actually, while spam is the fundamental root of our problems, the anti-spam measures that large ISPs and important free e-mail hosts (like Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail) undertake are what hurts legitimate Net marketers.

Much like tuna nets catch dolphins by mistake, their spam filters catch us. So the SiteSell SpamCheck Tool is a quick way for honest marketers to make sure that their e-mails are less likely to be considered spam by ISPs, by Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail (which tosses you into their Junk folders) and even by individual filters set up by an ever-growing number of recipients around the world.

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Here's how it works...

STEP 1: Copy-and-paste your subject, but start your subject with the word "TEST" (without the quotes, in UPPER CASE) so that we know this is a test e-mail. (If the subject does NOT start with TEST, we'll assume it's REAL spam and delete it).

Here's a sample subject...

TESTFlower-Lovers Ezine #007: Peonies for the Yukon

STEP 2: Copy-and-paste the rest of your e-zine and simply send it, exactly the way you would send it to your recipient, to...
spamcheck-AutoeSuccess@sitesell.net

-OR-

Simply visit this URL and use the online form to spamcheck your e-mail...
http://spamcheck.sitesell.com/AutoeSuccess.html

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You'll get a report back (in seconds, perhaps a few minutes if volume is heavy) telling you how good or bad your e-mail is, from a spam-detector's point of view. You will receive a full, free report of all corrections that you should make to your zine, in order to stay out of the junk folders. It does NOT, of course, actually comment on WHAT you write -- first, it's not that smart. And second, the actual content is YOUR business! ;-)

Again, having your own autoresponder on your own domain is the best way to stay clean of spam problems and blacklisted ISPs. See
Parabots for our recommendation. These guys will even set it up on your domain for you in short order. See webhost for our recommended webhost. Most for less and super responsive and reliable!

Don't know how to make a web page? Use one of the simple and no cost Blog softwares that are available. For long term use,
WordPress is best. No one looking over your shoulder and you own your own content. For temporary use, Blogspot is available. I use both but use WordPress for my permanent blog at http://www.SuccessApps.com

Fred Raley
Fred@ABC-Success.Biz
Woodbridge, VA
(703) 730 1079

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