{"id":5130,"date":"2011-12-15T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2011-12-15T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T14:00:37","slug":"why-yahoo-email-is-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/why-yahoo-email-is-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Yahoo Email Is The Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curious&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Over the last several weeks (if not months) I&#8217;ve been getting emails saying, &#8220;Hey Ben, your emails are landing in my spam\/junk mail folder. Just thought you should know&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This happens with email.<\/p>\n<p>So really, it&#8217;s not that big a deal.<\/p>\n<p>But, what makes my antenna go up is this:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gone through and checked and, in every case (yes, every. single. one&#8230;) it&#8217;s from someone with a yahoo email address.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Even more interesting:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A good 99.9% of the time the spam assassin rating on my emails is a big fat goose egg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(i.e. &#8220;0&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the solution?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get all my emails&#8230; or any other emails that come from aweber (and realize this stuff always is changing)&#8230; I would suggest NOT signing up with a yahoo address.<\/p>\n<p>Use a real email address, instead.<\/p>\n<p>(And keep this in mind if you use aweber, too.)<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know there ain&#8217;t much you can do.<\/p>\n<p>It ain&#8217;t just an aweber thang.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a yahoo thang.<\/p>\n<p>(It takes two to tango&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is yet another reason to (1) make your emails so good people sally forth to look for them if you don&#8217;t show up in their inbox and (2) maximize sales from the emails that DO reach the inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Thus the reason for &#8220;Email Players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a print newsletter dedicated JUST to email.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s pricey.<\/p>\n<p>But IMH(but accurate)O, if you use the info, then making your money back each month should be cake.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, go to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.EmailPlayers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.EmailPlayers.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And follow the instructions.<\/p>\n<p>See ya on the other side&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious&#8230; Over the last several weeks (if not months) I&#8217;ve been getting emails saying, &#8220;Hey Ben, your emails are landing in my spam\/junk mail folder. 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