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Tell a friend scripts - risk of spam?

by Ron Rajan
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Hi,

wanted to find out if anyone is using any type of viral / tell a friend script on their domains like "viral friend generator", "viral inviter"?

My understanding is that the emails that get sent out are from the domain mail server....

so, is there a risk of these emails getting flagged as spam?

Ron
#friend #risk #scripts #spam
  • Profile picture of the author Olliep
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    • Profile picture of the author Ron Rajan
      Thanks...

      what exactly is an "email list"? Sounds interesting... :p

      Ron

      Originally Posted by Olliep View Post

      You don't need that, that's old and the outdated method! What you need to do is Build you a email list through a sqweeze page and use an autoresponder.

      The best way to do this is either google it up "building email list or go to you tube how to build a email list"!
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  • Profile picture of the author globalpro
    Ron,

    You are correct about the script sending the emails from your server. Have had too many clients test TAF scripts and the results weren't worth using them.

    Thanks,

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author Ron Rajan
      Hey John,

      how are you? Yeah - that's what I was thinking as well....it might go viral, but there's the risk of getting your domain name blocked by the ISP, if there are too many spam complaints...

      Ron

      Originally Posted by globalpro View Post

      Ron,

      You are correct about the script sending the emails from your server. Have had too many clients test TAF scripts and the results weren't worth using them.

      Thanks,

      John
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
        I'd say it's not worth it. If someone likes your site enough to tell a friend about it, they'll tell their friend about it.

        I had such scripts on a couple of my sites for a couple years. I think the only time they were used to "tell a friend" were the first couple test messages I did myself.

        Never had any spam complaints, nor did I get listed on any publicized black lists.

        There were a lot of spammers using it though. Or trying to use it. They were looking for vulnerabilities in SendMail where they could bypass the script and use your mail server to send their spam. Well, my sites didn't use SendMail, so that didn't work for them. And since the customization options of the script were limited, they couldn't stuff my script with their spam. So, it was really ineffectual for the spammers.

        But, it was ineffectual for me too since the spammers were the only ones trying to use the script.
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        • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
          Besides, these days you can use "share this page" links to digg, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and people can tell their friends that way.
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          • Profile picture of the author sundrop881
            Originally Posted by Dan C. Rinnert View Post

            Besides, these days you can use "share this page" links to digg, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and people can tell their friends that way.
            If I like something on a site, or maybe want to notify others of an upcoming critical bill in congress, I really appreciate the Facebook and Twitter buttons. Sending out an email myself at that point just seems like too much effort and, of course, you want to reach a lot of people at one time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Hess
    Ron, if you like the idea of a viral tell-a-friend script but don't want to run the risk of ISP problems check out this site: Your Tell-A-Friend

    (Free and paid version)
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Rajan
    Hi Dan,

    good points...was just wondering if anyone had used a TAF script effectively...

    the benefit of a TAF script over just a plain 'share this page' is that you could "bribe" your visitors with a free gift if they sent it out to X number of people..

    I know Frank Kern had good success with GKM on the Core Influence site, but that script seems to be buggy (based on a diff thread on this forum).

    Ron
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  • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
    I've disabled it since someone found it on one of my sites and amassed a bunch of spam complaints from that form.

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    Spammage I am afraid... Glory days are gone gone gone.
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  • Profile picture of the author Naveed Peerzade
    This may help you... I contacted ViralInviter some time back asking the question about twitter direct msges... and he gave me good idea. here is his reply

    generally, yes, it CAN happen that twitter bans your IP.
    That can happen with any other webmail provider as well though.

    That's why some of the bigger guys use viralinviter on a different server and then implement the interface via an iframe on their site.

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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew E.
    The real problem with TAF scripts that get hosted on your servers is that many times, your mail gets funneled to Spam folders instead of the inbox to begin with.

    Just my experience.
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