Still having an issue with most emails going to spam. A reader sent me some great tech tools that revealed the issue is with GMail.
GMail says:
1) Mark incorrectly classified messages as Not Spam
(In webmail, Spam folder, select them, then click the Not Spam button at the top. You may have to do this for a bit to train it.)
2) Add trusted senders to your personal contacts list:
contact at davidya.ca (change “at” to @)
This will not only help train your filters, it will train it for everyone.
NOTE: If you wish to unsubscribe, please use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of all emails. It’s safe to do this for legitimate senders. If you mark it as spam, you’re still getting the emails and cluttering the spam filters.
Thank you!
Davidya
This may be sorting itself out. Traffic levels have been climbing again to prior levels.
Followed the instructions and it seems to be back to normal.
Thanks Richard – that will help a lot too.
Update from this end: All the emails about new blog posts are still going into my spam folder. I use Yahoo and have been manually going into the spam folder marking all of the emails as “not spam” for quite a while now but they continue to only go into the spam folder (this is also the case for a friend who uses a different email provider, not gmail or yahoo). I have also added contact – davidya.ca to my contacts but it doesn’t seem to have changed anything.
Anything else I can do?
Hi G
So much of this is black box and automated. Who knows. I have posts going to Facebook and discovered recently it’s not promoting my Page as a few posts have words in their title it didn’t like, like “sensitive” and “Ignorance.” Evidently, it was marking those posts as “dangerous.” (rolls eyes)
Officially, it’s not on Yahoo’s spam list so I’m not sure whats causing that. Gmail can add filters to incoming messages. Not sure if Yahoo has that feature. A filter could be used to automatically put it in the inbox. That should bypass spam filters…. and it shouldn’t be necessary. 🙁
Thanks. I tried adding filters in Yahoo but it seems the filters only allow you to move messages to sub-folders, not to the inbox. I’ve unsubscribed with my yahoo email and resubscribed with a gmail account. Let’s see if that makes a difference 🙂
Automation is great but it can annoy when it does things we don’t want and ignores when we tell it otherwise…
Thanks!