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The New Email Deliverability Rules: How to Make Sure You Reach Your Gmail and Yahoo Subscribers

Litmus

With Google and Yahoo enforcing new email deliverability rules, reaching your subscribers is about to get more difficult. But worry not—as long as you follow these new rules, your email campaigns should stay out of spam. Google and Yahoo partnered in this effort to reduce the risk of phishing, spam, and malware.

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Make It to the Inbox With Litmus Spam Testing

Litmus

Email authentication Email authentication looks at the source of an email to see if it’s valid. Also called domain authentication or validation, email authentication helps prevent spoofing and phishing scams (like emails meant to look like they come from Amazon or your bank—but don’t).

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Make It to the Inbox With Litmus Spam Testing

Litmus

Confirming that you’ve properly authenticated any domain you use is one the most basic steps you can take to improve the chances that your email will make it where you intend. A lot of factors can affect your email deliverability. Our spam test gives you insight into what might get your email marked as junk. List-Unsubscribe.

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Adapting to Change: Navigating Google and Yahoo’s Latest Spam Policies for Effective Marketing and Sales Outreach

DealSignal

Primarily, these updates aim to enhance the user experience by reducing unwanted spam and ensuring that only authentic, relevant emails land in inboxes. This move is also a response to the increasing sophistication of spam and phishing attacks, which not only annoy users but also pose serious security risks.

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Email marketing strategy: A marketer’s guide

Martech

Subdomains help your customers recognize your brand’s name through the top-level domain; this prevents phishing attempts. Audience Building a positive relationship with your audience is another important component of email marketing; these relationships are critical for reaching your subscribers’ inbox.

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What is BIMI and why should email marketers care?

Litmus

Over the last couple of years, the working group has been joined by the likes of Google, Fastmail, LinkedIn, Validity, Mailchimp, Verizon Media, SendGrid, and more. Like other email authentication standards, BIMI is essentially a text file. BIMI should be beneficial to your email deliverability, too. How does BIMI work?

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Make It to the Inbox—Not the Spam Folder—with Litmus Spam Testing

Litmus

You work hard to craft the right message and perfect design for your email campaigns. But those hours and hours spent optimizing your copy and troubleshooting tricky rendering issues are wasted if those emails don’t make it to the inbox. Understanding what causes an email to land in the junk folder can be difficult.