4 Email Elements To Avoid In Your Campaigns
2009 October 1
In a recent “Service In Action” call at Email Yogi, they listed these four messaging must nots:
- No CSS – Try to not cascading stylesheets or CSSs, instead do all of the text formatting inline within the HTML. Some ISPs will strip out CSS code within emails. If you cannot avoid using CSS then try to embed the style within the two body tags and not within the header.
- No Scripting – Avoid using any kind of scripting such as javascript, as most email clients will register javascript as a virus
- “Strong” not “b” – Instead of using the “b” tag for bolding, try “Strong” instead; the “b” tag is commonly used by spammers and many filters have begun to take notice.
- No TBODY – Avoid the use of TBODY tags in your code. Several ISPs look at the use of a TBODY tag as a characteristic of Spam.
The call is also available to download as a podcast.
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You should know one of the Subject line should pertain to the email and be informative enough to encourage the reader to open it whilst not being too long. It should not be in capitals, or contain exclamation marks.
The most important is Provide a plain text as well as an HTML version. Thanks for sharing those nice tips.
and don’t use lots of hypey web copy.Spam filters pick it up and you end up in the junk folder.
I agree with Rich; don’t use lots of hypey web copy. Spam filters pick it up and you end up in the junk folder. Good advice. Building a mailing list
Email marketing is the best process for any business it can helps you to keep professional-looking email communications to stay in touch with them and build strong customer relationships, I really got a best technique to avoid email elements in campaign.
“Strong” not “b” : I thought they were the same. I don’t know why they are different but I will try ‘strong’ from now on.