I just read Mark Hendricks’ blog post explaining why an email to his list bounced like crazy. Interestingly, it bounced because it contained a URL to a domain that is listed (right or wrong) on several black lists. Just because his email contained the URL, it got bounced — talk about guilt by association!
It wasn’t my URLs that were listed, it was someone else’s.
It wasn’t my email server URL address, it was just because
in my email was a URL domain that was accused (right or wrong)
of being a spam sender.(you learn something new all the time, and I’ve been doing
email marketing since 1994!)If you are going to use a link to someone else’s domain address
in your email, make sure to go to this site and do a search to
see if they are on this ‘black list’ before you include it in
your outgoing email broadcast.http://www.rulesemporium.com/cgi-bin/uribl.cgi
Type in the domain name in question, and select ALL RBL
then click Check It.If it shows RED, do not put that domain name in your outgoing
email, instead use a redirect link from your domain to theirs, such
as this free one at:
Of course, I wanted to check my URLs immediately to make sure they weren’t listed (I’m in the “black” whew!)
