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Ability of your email to be
delivered to recipient’s Inbox
instead of being blocked by spam
filters or bounced as a bad email
address.
3. ISPs & Spam Filters
Why does an Email land in Spam/Junk folder?
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4. 80-90% of email is spam!
That’s a lot of spam
20% of genuine emails are filtered!
A study by Returnpath.
2-3% of email is Trans!
And rest is promotional.
5. How Spam is Filtered?
◉ Blacklisting : List of bad IPs and Domains
spewing spam.
◉ Spamtraps : Honeypots designed to attract
spam
◉ Rule based : Rules based on content and
behavioural patterns of users. AI based.
◉ Volume based : Unusual spikes in sending
volume.
6. Genuine mail Filtered?
◉ Spamtrap hits?
◉ Content : Using content that is already tagged
as spam by the ISPs.
◉ More than 2% of Invalid users on your list?
◉ More than 0.1% recipients complained that
your email is spam?
◉ Try to send huge volumes from new
domain/Ip space?
7. 2. How to Inbox
Best Practices to ensure that your mails land in
Inbox!
8. You have to make a Choice
◉ Choose your ESP wisely.
◉ Dedicated or Shared IP space.
◉ Single Opt-in or Double Opt-in.
◉ Frequency
9. Follow Best Practices
◉ Send Relevant Emails.
◉ Authenticate your emails : SPF & DKIM.
◉ Start with a Warmup Process.
◉ Ensure that the content is unique.
◉ Instant unsubscribe via email.
◉ Remove inactive users periodically.
◉ Conversational Emails & not “noreply” blasts.
◉ Consistency.
◉ Test your email before deployment.