How to Avoid Spam Complaints in your Emails

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How to Avoid Spam Complaints in your Emails

By John Lynch
http://www.merchant-account-service.com

Spam filters are responsible for deleting a high
percentage of legitimate business emails from
people who have no wish to spam. Here are some
tips to avoid spam complaints in your emails or
ezine.

<b>Avoid the following triggers in your emails.</b>

1. Excessive use of ALL CAPITALS in the subject
line and body of your email.

2. The use of words like "free"(used alone or in
combination with words like "trial","money",
"quote", "sample", "membership", "access" etc.)
Other more obvious word to avoid include
"sex", "XXX","spam", "$$$", "checks", "money",
"extra income", "as seen on TV".
Even seemingly harmless word such as "search
engine listings", "cable converter", and
"reverses aging" will get you in trouble.

3. Excessive use of exclamation marks "!!!"


<b>Tips for Staying on the Right Side of Spam Filters</b>


1. Use words like "news", "newsletter", "list"
in your subject line.

2. Say how often your ezine is published in the
subject line - weekly, monthly.

3. Put date of newsletter in subject line.

4. Put issue number in the subject line.

5. Ensure your newsletter is a proper ezine with
some substance in the text.


To help identify spam in your emails/ezines use the
following spam checker always before you send
anything out.

<a href="http://www.merchant-account-service.com/stop_spam_mail.html" target="_blank">http://www.merchant-account-service.com/stop_spam_mail.html</a>


Above all, use your common sense. We know what spam
looks like, so avoid anything that resembles it in
your ezine.


(C) John Lynch

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