Multiple Niche Sites - Emails??

I would say either hire someone if you can afford or get a partner,

I am having few sites and they getting me crazy.

Since they have different niche you can't mix these.

The problem with using one email address for all of them is that you will likely have not know which product people are emailing you about. In general people put close to nothing in their emails as far as details.

Of course you can add some more fields on your contact form like "What product are you writing about" but that will negate your goal of not making it obvious that it's one email for multiple niches.

We use Kayako for our helpdesk solution. You can add your mailboxes into the interface so you only have one place to check for tickets. I don't see a problem with using this for 20+ support mailboxes.

I think the best way is to use a contact form like you say. What I normally do is set up a different email for each - if it is a niche product this goes without saying, but if I were just promoting as an affiliate a contact form would do.

Chris

Ok thanks for the reponses.

The sites in question are niche content sites. I am not selling products of my own on these and the contact forms are for advertising requests, misellaneous requests and for general use.

GoGetta

I have numerous sites and this is what I do.

For each website I create an email account for that particular domain. So, for examples sake, I have john [at] seostartupkit.com, and then I set a forwarder within Hostgators control panel that forwards any emails sent to that email, directly to a centralised email account. In my case, I simply use my own email account, because I have it open 24/7. (I use outlook)

Then on my actual sites, I use a contact form, (no emails are visible).

Within my code, I set the subject header to reflect the website - so I know which site/product theyre talking about.

In my inbox I get something like this....

Title - General Enquiry - SEO Startup Kit
Name - Joe Blogs
Message - ......

There's probably a better way to do it. Once I get to the point of having too many sites, I might consider implementing a ticket system. But for now this seems to work okay.

Hope this helps.

Create 1 email per domain and then have all the accounts added to MS Outlook you then have the multiple sites separate and you can also organise within the emails into folders. hope I helped

Thanks Johnny and Lewis.

Do you guys know if you can forward emails too one cpanel webmail rather than having to use an email client like MS Outlook?

GoGetta

Yes it is possible to do that for example, on windows live it says this :



Forwarding
You can forward your mail to one other email account.

Important note: Please sign in at least once every 270 days—otherwise your account looks inactive and could be deleted.
Don't forward
Forward your mail to another email account
Where do you want your messages to be sent?

Example: name@example.com
Keep a copy of forwarded messages in your Windows Live Hotmail inbox.


However i do recommend using an email client, they are very organized and I've found the usability with MS outlook is much better than windows live

Thanks Lewis, will check it out now!

GoGetta

Similar setups to all the above.

In cpanel i create an email for the niche site, let us say it is sales@domainname.com

Then I use "forwarders" to push sales@domainname.com to my main email account.

My main email account tells me where the original email was sent to, so it would say, email from user from sales@domainname.com

I use filters to separate the emails in the main email account utilizing Thunderbird and Outlook.

I use thunderbird for the ease of email extraction.

I setup domain specific emails within cpanel and then forward to my gmail account. Then I go into my Gmail account and add the "domain account" in the settings. Thus when I receive an email I can reply from Gmail itself.

Simple. Easy and effective.

Many other people touched upon the same answer but I am of the opinion of having one hub like outlook (or a more customizable - user friendly one) to consolidate the 20+ sites emails. If you are doing 20+ niches then that will be a huge bother, but the work put in to consolidate will eventually give you the desired outcome. Otherwise I would start grouping niches and trying to minimize the amount of different email sets on whatever email platform you can combine multiple addresses on.

Any time gogetta

Cool thanks guys.

I am going to sort this today. I was meaning to do it yesterday but super busy!

Cheers,

GoGetta