7 WAYS TO IMPROVE A DAMAGED EMAIL SENDER REPUTATION

Deliverability and the general success of email marketing might suffer greatly if your email sender reputation is damaged.

In this blog, we'll look at the various ways you can manage your sender reputation and the steps you should take first to ensure the success of your upcoming email marketing campaigns. These steps include evaluating the performance of your account, purging your email list, setting up email verification, and more.

How to repair the reputation of a damaged sender

The amount of data needed to assess sender reputation is always growing since internet service providers (ISPs) and mailbox providers (MBPs) employ sophisticated algorithms to screen incoming mail and safeguard inboxes.

When it comes to repairing a damaged reputation of an email sender, this can be too much to handle for marketers. To start repairing your reputation and enhance the effectiveness of your upcoming efforts, you can take a variety of steps, though:

1. Examine your email performance over time.
2. Determine the metrics related to your issue.
3. Examine the emails you've been sending.
4. Purge your email list and determine who your top contactsare.
5. Send a request for approval again.
6. Turn on reCAPTCHA and double opt-in.
7. Put email verification into practice.

1. Examine the effectiveness of your emails over time.

Over time, sender reputation accumulates, accounting for both the good and bad things you have done with emails in the past. It's common for marketers to fixate on the outcomes of their most recent or ongoing campaigns. However, you may determine where your emails and metrics started to decline by obtaining a more thorough picture of your account's performance over time. Afterwards, you can utilize this data to identify areas where your upcoming campaigns can be strengthened.

2. Determine the metrics related to your issue.

Delivering the appropriate content to the right people at the right time is the key to successful email marketing efforts. Evaluating the degree to which each of these objectives has been met by your previous campaigns can assist you in determining which areas need immediate attention.

A higher bounce rate for your emails may be a sign that the contacts in your email lists are of lower quality. Alternatively, persistently poor engagement rates, a rise in spam reports, or an increase in unsubscribes could indicate that the content of your emails is irrelevant or that the timing of their distribution was off.

3. Examine the information in the emails you've been writing.

Your reputation will suffer if your campaigns are not performing well due to ineffective targeting and a lack of relevance. You should review the following aspects:

• Subject lines: Phrases like "free," "offer," "discount," and "guarantee" are prone to set off spam filters.
• Links and URLs: Examine the security and quality of any links that are included in your email copy.
• Shortened URLs: Stay away from these as they may seem dubious.
• Targeting: Are you using your content to properly target your customers? You may increase the relevance of your emails by using dynamic content.

4. Sort your email addresses and prioritize the people on them.

Your priceless contact lists may eventually become one of your main deliverability issues. You run the danger of sending to disposable or spam email addresses, disengaged contacts, dormant subscribers, and spam traps if lists are not maintained and cleaned on a regular basis. Some methods to clean your email lists are to remove these problematic addresses using a bulk email checker, remove subscribers who are absolutely inactive, and filter out contacts who have not granted permission to receive your emails.

You can find your most-engaged contacts after reviewing your email lists. As you are repairing your reputation, your key contacts should be those who consistently open and respond to your emails. Your engagement metrics will rise when you can more simply customize your communications by narrowing down the list of recipients.

5. Send a request for approval again.

It is a good idea to start a re-permission campaign while you concentrate on sending to permissions-based lists. Sending this to contacts who participate in your campaigns from time to time but do not meet the requirements to be fully removed will allow you to give them another chance to alter their permissions or unsubscribe.

With this approach, you can boost interaction and underline the importance of your communications. Additionally, it will help you keep your email lists even cleaner and stop you from reaching out to inactive contacts in the future.

6. Turn on reCAPTCHA and double opt-in.

Including reCAPTCHA and double opt-in in your registration procedure increases the likelihood that the people on your contact list will be more interested in your content going forward. These procedures also stop bots and spam addresses from filling out your registration forms and adding erroneous addresses to your lists.

7. Put email verification into practice.

Email verification programs perform real-time checks on email addresses to determine their validity, sender likelihood, and ability to receive incoming emails.

The majority of email verification solutions let you connect sign-up forms and business systems directly to validate emails as soon as they are captured, or you may import a list of the email addresses you wish to confirm. Regardless of the approach you take, it's important to incorporate this into your email marketing strategy on a regular basis so you can spot and take care of any possible threats to your sender reputation before they become serious. Additionally, it will stop you from inadvertently getting in touch with:

• Recognized spam traps
• Expired email addresses
• Untrusted or spammy addresses

These addresses can be very difficult to identify and may be the source of sender difficulties for emails. To find out more about email marketers' advantages using email verification