Your system side

  • List hygiene
    • Responding instantly to unsubs
    • Optin confirmation strategy
    • Removing or suppressing the unengaged
    • Removing hard bounces immediately
    • Removing soft bounces after the 3rd bounce • Master suppression list
  • Engagement monitoring
  • DKIM and SPF
  • Properly formatted HTML
  • Careful wording selection (spam assassin)
  • Equal image to text ratio
  • Monitoring abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses
  • Volume and consistency
  • Obey the law (can spam act)

Off your system factors
- Blacklists
- Accreditation programs
- ISP feedback loops
- ISP whitelisting