Technology & Internet Marketing Frank Ross on 18 Jan 2007 04:58 pm
Internet Marketers fall into Gmail Spam Filter
I get a lot of email from internet marketers in my Gmail box. I’ve noticed that two in particular have been getting dumped into the Spam folder of Gmail. Mike Filsaime and The Blog Squad to be exact. I’ve had to instruct Gmail that these folks are not spam - I believe Gmail ‘learns’ from what you tell it. I’ll wait to see what it does next time I get email from these people.
How long or exactly when they began getting moved into the spam folder I cannot say. They were going to my inbox at one time. They might be doing something that Gmail’s spam algorithm doesn’t like. There are plenty of other internet marketers who go right to my inbox. From the perspective of an internet marketer, having their email go off into the spam folder is practically a fate worse than death! It’s kind of like “go to directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $$$”.
I may send them each a little note letting them know about this or else they may pick up my tag. If Gmail is doing this to my inbox, it’s possible that other Gmail spam filters are getting their fill of these legitimate emails as well.
Tags: Mike Filsaime, Blog Squad, Internet Marketers, Spam Filters
on 19 Jan 2007 at 1:42 am 1.Denise aka The Blog Squad said …
Hi Frank, I picked up your post in my google alerts. I’m glad to know and definitely concerned that our email is going into your gmail spam filter. I find it totally confusing as to what goes in and what is delivered. I use gmail almost exclusively now and most marketing stuff, unless it is outright spam, does not get filtered. We’ll have to take a closer look at what we’re putting in our emails.
Thanks for the heads up.