http://www.EntrepreneurEmpowered.com How To Create And Build A Fail Safe email Delivery for A Target Marketing List Using Lead Net Pro.
I have to be honest with you, right now you’re probably blind. You have Lead Net Pro, you setup your host server and start firing messages through it. You don’t know if they are bouncing, making it to the inbox or just failing altogether.
To be fair, it’s not your fault. This is the way most people handle email. To ensure that those important emails get to the inbox, there is a lot more involved. I’m going to explain how to make it happen.
(Brace Yourself)
Here’s what you’ll need to know if you want to do it yourself.
Mail Servers and DNS
The next important step is configuring DNS Without this, receiving mail servers have no idea who you are. Make sure to give your mail server a dedicated IP address and a domain. Now, this is where most people stop, and also where they get into trouble.
email Authentication
Once your mail server is up and running and messages are sending, it’s time to think about authentication. No, I am not talking about a username and password. email authentication was created to help validate and verify senders. The standards we’ll discuss are SPF and DKIM
SPF (Sender Policy Framework)
SPF is pretty simple. You create a record in your DNS and define the IP addresses or domains who are allowed to send for your domain. When an email is sent, the receiving mail server looks this up and decides if it should accept the message.
DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail)
DKIM is also managed via DNS, but is very different. With DKIM you designate the various servers that you send email from (email marketing, transactional, departments, etc) and give each one a private and public key pair.
The public key is added to DNS and the private key is configured on your mail servers. When you send email, each message is “signed” with the key and used by receiving mail servers to identify and verify your domain.
Reputation & Monitoring
While ISPs don’t publish their reputation data, there are two well known public resources: http://www.Senderscore.com and http://www.Senderbase.com You can use these for FREE to track your own IP reputation, but keep in mind they are not definitive and should be used for reference only.
The best way to test delivery results is through something like Mailbox Monitor from Return Path, which will track the inbox, missing and spam rates of a seed list to major ISPs worldwide.
Whitelists and Feedback Loops
Heard enough already? I’m almost done. The final important aspect of sending email is getting listed (no, not blacklisted). A growing number of ISPs having something called a Feedback loop. In short, it is a way to get notified when someone clicks “This is spam” in their email client.
Most people don’t even know about it, but it’s just as important as having an unsubscribe option. By tracking spam complaints, you can easily remove these people from your list and avoid damaging your reputation. This is also a good metric to understand how relevant your email is to subscribers. Something to keep in mind, AOL (and others) consider 1 complaint for every 1,000 messages a target rate for bulk senders.
Whitelists still exist, but only with ISPs such as Yahoo, AOL, Verizon, and United Online. If you send a high volume of email, you may want to look into commercial accreditation services like SenderScore Certified and ISIPP.
Okay, even I am bored at this point
An easy way actually exists, and all you have to do is use a service that already has all of this in place and follow their instructions. When it comes to sending transactional email from your web app, there are a few services popping up lately, but I’ll just explain how we tackle the above in Postmark.
Hector Guerrero
http://www.entrepreneurempowered.com
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