Tips To Help You Avoid Being Labeled As A Spammer

Here are some tips to help you avoid being labeled as a spammer.

We all know that being labeled a spammer can immediately kill any prospects you might have of ever becoming the Internet marketing guru of your dreams.

Some innocent little mistakes can flag your site or email as spam, even though they are not.

If you remember these little tidbits of information and use this advice, you will probably never encounter this problem.

People will often use all capital letters to stress a point in their emails. This is unwise for a couple of reasons. Using all caps will dramatically increase the likelihood that your email will get filtered. In addition, using all caps in your emails makes your content harder to read and looks like you are shouting to your readers instead of addressing them in normal conversation.

• Avoid using excessive punctuation marks in your content.
  

Using ????, !!!!!, $$$$, or <<<<< will prompt the filters in many email programs to recognize the content as spam. This is especially likely to happen when exclamation marks, question marks and the like are used in conjunction with all capital letters. When you use dollar signs, use only one to denote currency. When you want to get your message across, don't use multiple exclamations or other such symbols; use your extensive vocabulary of descriptive words.

• Avoid using words like Free, Investment, Credit Card, Guarantee, Click Here, etc.

These words are unfortunately considered to be spam when used too frequently. Believe it or not, using CLICK HERE in your "call to action" can be a spam trigger. It's better to use specific "call to action" hyperlinks and avoid the filters.

• Avoid the use of misleading subject lines in your emails.

Many email marketers use cute misleading subjects or even no subject, to get you to open their emails. You may have seen something like "Here is your download" or "eMail Confirmation" or something similar in your in-basket that you never asked for or has nothing to do with the content of the email. Always match the content of your email with your subject matter and never leave a blank subject line.

Some email marketers also use a blank "from" address in their email solicitations to get people to open their emails. This is a bad practice and will likely get your email filtered.

• The last tactic email marketers sometimes use to get their point accross is to use Red or Orange text in their content.

This is fine on a landing page or sales page but will probably activate an email filter when used with emails.

Depending on the background color you use in your email, Red and Orange text can also be difficult to read. You can make your point better and avoid an email spam filter by using descriptive terminology instead.

Remember that by using these tips to help you avoid being labeled as a spammer, your emails will be have a better chance of being read instead of being deleted.

Happy marketing.

Getting Noticed Online Does Not Have To Be A Full Time Job

Of all the Internet business marketing solutions we encounter, getting noticed online is by far the most problematic.

Getting noticed online doesn't have to be a full time job and getting your website listed on the major search engines can be a relatively simple task if you follow some of these simple suggestions.

There are no magic bullets to getting ranked , it just boils down to a bit of hard work and time well directed.

First of all, assuming your website and page content is already optimized for the search engines.

• You need to submit your site to the search engines. When I say the search engines, I mean primarily Google and Yahoo.
  

Google makes no predictions as to when your site will be indexed, nor does not add all submitted URLs but most bonifide websites will get indexed after their URLs are submitted and Google's search engine spiders crawl your site.

Submit your website URL to Google at this link:
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Submit your site to Yahoo Site Explorer at this link:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

Although your website will eventually be crawled by the search engines software robots and indexed, manually submitting your site speeds the indexing process up a bit.

• Getting noticed online by submitting your website for inclusion into the various directories will also greatly improve your ranking.
  

Directory submission is a strategy that gives your website a highly visible advantage, especially when manual indexing techniques are used. Although this takes time, it is well worth the effort.

Relevance to your website must be considered and is extremely important in directory submissions.

There are many affordable directory submission services available online that can be found by doing a Google search. If you go this route, be sure that the submissions are done manually and the directories are credible and reputable.

The one way permanent links generated by this type of directory submission will make your website substantially more popular and highly visible, compared to reciprocal linking.

• Some webmasters find that joining "banner exchanges" and trading advertising banners with other web sites gets them noticed online. If banner exchanges are for you, just search for "banner exchange" on Google.

• Another way of getting noticed online is by visiting sites with similar content to yours and offering to exchange links. This is cost efficient and productive.

Just email the webmaster with your link and explain the benefit of the exchange. Most webmasters realize the benefit and will exchange links if the sites is relevant and of value.

The last method of getting noticed online is somewhat time consuming but very productive.

• Write useful articles that will benefit other sites, include your web address in the resource box at the end of the article, and submit the article to the major article directories.

Ezine articles and GoArticles is by far the most read and reputable however, some of the other high PR article directories will also help you get noticed online.

If you follow the basic guides to article marketing, your website will soon become popular.

Getting noticed online doesn't have to be a full time job if you follow some or all of the above suggestions.

The Ultimate Guide To Free Web Traffic For Your Success shows how you can generate massive streams of targeted traffic and get noticed online for free.