Email blacklist is a collection of email addresses that are likely to send out spam emails.
A blacklist contains a list of IP addresses, domains, or email addresses that have deferred from the best practices of email delivery, achieved a poor sender score or have been blocked from arrival into their intended inboxes.
ISPs use blacklists to protect their accounts from SPAM. This results in emails from known or regular offenders being blocked, keeping inboxes clean and tidy, and full of messages from purely respectable senders.
You set up a cold email campaign and everything seems to run smoothly until you have a look at the statistics and notice a very high bounce rate.
This may be a sign that you got blacklisted.
First of all – don’t panic. Provided you landed on a blacklist unintentionally, it’s not such a big deal to get yourself off it. What costs much more effort, though, is regaining a good sending reputation afterward. But first let me explain to you how blacklists work, why you landed on one and what you can do to get your IP removed from it.
You have to know this. Especially if you do email outreach.
Each email service provider has its own email sending limits. The limits may be daily, hourly, and sometimes also per minute. If you’re sending cold email campaigns without being aware of your email provider’s sending limits, your email account may get blocked before you know it.
How many emails can you send per day with Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and other popular email hosts? How many emails are considered spam? How to avoid getting blacklisted?
If you’re looking for an answer to any of the above questions, you came to the right place.
You may already know why you should warm up a domain before hitting the ‘send’ button and how to do it, and what to do when your domain reputation has gone downhill.
But to clear any doubts that may still arise in the curious minds of cold email senders, I thought it’d be a good idea to collect the most common domain questions that our users ask us.
So, without further ado, here they are – check out the answers to some of the most common domain questions.
Preparing an outbound email campaign, no matter if your goal is to reach potential customers or find a VC to fund your startup, takes lots of time. You have to collect the addresses first, then do the segmentation and write a compelling, personalized email.
It would be a huge waste of your time if your emails weren’t delivered to your contacts’ inbox and landed in SPAM instead. And the deliverability of your emails depends greatly on your sender reputation. You should take good care of it and prevent it from any damage.
Are you taking good care of your cold email campaigns’ delivery rates? There are a few tools our team uses to help Woodpecker customers test email deliverability and improve it. In this post, we share this list with you and explain how & when you can use email deliverability tools by yourself.
You should test email deliverability in two cases:
Before starting your cold email campaign (whether it’s automated or not), and during your cold email campaign, if you have some reasons to suspect that your delivery rates may be low, or you get blocked from sending by your email service provider (for instance, Google.)
Have a closer look at your campaign stats. If you notice that the open rate is taking a nosedive and the number of bounces goes sky high, it most likely means that your deliverability rate is at a rock bottom and your messages either end up in the SPAM folder or are not delivered to the recipients at all.
These symptoms may indicate that your domain reputation got seriously damaged or perhaps you even got blacklisted. Don’t worry, though, you can bring your good reputation back.
This blog post is a step-by-step manual on how to do it.
You can have control over your cold email deliverability. In outbound outreach, it’s crucial how many of the emails you sent actually get to your prospects’ inboxes.
There are at least 14 points on a deliverability checklist that you can, and should, go through before you start off your Woodpecker email campaign. I’ve listed them below in three categories. Some of them you may already know of, but some may be new for you. Check the list and see if you’re doing everything you can to ensure that your cold emails actually get to their destination.
Email blacklists are not exactly a place where you want to be.
After watching this video, you’ll understand how one can get blacklisted and what happens if you land on one of the infamous lists.
If you’ve never landed on one, we’ll give you a few tips on how to keep it that way, and if you have – here’s all the info you need to get off it.
