Advanced Email Marketing For Real Estate Professionals Part 10

April 23, 2010

- Is your message relevant and compelling?  Keep your newsletter and listing updates focused on your farm neighborhood.

- How frequently are you sending to your subscribers? Is it too much? Or too little?  If you haven’t emailed to your list in some time, they may have forgotten they signed up to hear from you and mark the message as spam.

It’s not the end of the world if you get on a blacklist.  Most email providers will re-instate you if you’ve only been blacklisted once or twice and you aren’t sending a huge volume of email to their users. Identify which email providers or blacklists are blacklisting you and contact them directly. Each has a process for applying for blacklist removal, and most start with an online form. Most ISP’s will want to know your which email provider you’re using and your IP address.  If you’re sending mails through your own internet service provider you can get your IP address from an IP lookup site such as http://whatismyipaddress.com

Here are links to some of the more popular ISP’s whitelisting/delisting pages:

AOL / Compuserve
Follow the directions in the article below:
http://www.streamsend.com/kb2/idx.php/13/104/Improving-Delivery/article/How-to-get-unblocked-by-AOL.html

AT&T / SBC Global / Bellsouth
Include your private IP address in the body of the email.
http://www.att.net/general-info/bls_info/block_admin.html

Barracuda
http://www.barracudacentral.org/lookups

Centurytel
Send a copy of a bounce error to abuse@centurytel.net

Charter
http://www.charter.com/postmaster

Comcast
Fill out the form located at:
http://www.comcastsupport.com/rbl

Cox
Send a copy of the bounced email notification to unblock.requests@cox.net

EarthLink
Send an email with the complete header to openrelay@abuse.earthlink.net
Allow 12-24 hours, our server engineers will fix the issue once the email is received.

Excite
Send and email asking to be removed from email blacklist to abuse@bluetie.com

Gmail
A helpful website:
http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html

Go here for messages being blocked or marked as spam
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?ctx=bulksend&nomods=1

Hotmail
Follow the instructions in this article:
Answering the Sender Information Form for Hotmail Delivery

Juno / NetZero / Bluelight (United Online)
Getting onto whitelist:
http://www.unitedonline.net/postmaster/blocked.html

Outblaze
You can check if you are blocked and request whitelisting here:
http://spamblock.outblaze.com/

Roadrunner / Adelphia
Follow instructions for removal:
http://security.rr.com/mail_blocks.htm

USA.NET
Your IP address can be checked and you can request whitelisting at:
http://postmaster.usa.net/html/error.html

Verizon
http://www2.verizon.net/micro/whitelist/request_form.asp?id=isp

Yahoo
Follow the directions in this article:
Yahoo is Filtering/Blocking my Email

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