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Will my site be Blacklisted? Please help

by newbieontheblock
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Hi girls and guys,
Here is my problem............
I am in the construction industry and I have a fairly high position in the niche market that I work in

I have a bricks and mortar building,
We are well known in the state we work in, not so well known outside which we are working at to improve and to do that.....

I have started to use constant contacts and I have about 50,000 email addresses all involved in the construction industry. All collected from various seminars all over the world, trade shows all over the world, sales guy visiting different companies, query's from internet, various meetings, all in the space of 20 years that we have been trading.

Now I sent 5,000 emails recently featuring my services,

Now the report shows me that I have 16 spam reports and 1900 bounces from those emails.
When I was talking to the guys at CContact they told me if I got a number of spam reports that the website
( which is accounting for more and more sales and actually has become the bread and butter of the business in the last 3 years )
could be possibly blacklisted. Have they got this information correct and can I get blacklisted if people click on the spam button of the email.

This is my first foray into really promoting my website and I think I've shot myself in the foot if this turns out to be true.

Can anybody please help as I'm really stuck on what to do and who to ask for help as I'm not that tech minded.
#blacklisted #site
  • Profile picture of the author masterjani
    where Your website is blacklisted?is it from search engines?
    I dont think your site is blacklisted because of click spam in their email.Only thing happen is they wont receive your mail thereafter, thats it.Try to collect their bouncing emails and remove from your list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ashfaq
    First of all this is wrong category to discuss this issue. This section is related to Adsense/PPC/SEO discussions.

    Your domain will be blacklisted for sending too many spam in a short period of time. Only emails service providors blacklists your domain. If you want to send emails daily then you have to get whitelisted.
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  • Profile picture of the author newbieontheblock
    Hi masterjani,
    No the website is not blacklisted, they only said that if a certain amount of people press the spam button in the email I sent thru Constantcontact then my website domain could be blacklisted and will be removed from the google website.
    Any emails that have come back bounced, they have been taken off the list and will never receive another email from me, as I dont want to get into trouble in the first place.

    Hi Ashfaq,
    Apologies for posting here, I thought this would come under SEO,
    My initial plan was to send all the emails this week, and then do a monthly or bi-monthly email, but from what happened when I sent those 5,000 emails and the threat of being blacklisted, I'm afraid to continue.
    As I said, the website is responsible for keeping us open in the past few years, and I dont want to jeopardize that in any way.
    Even if it means not sending out the rest of those emails, which kind of defeats the purpose of me trying to do internet marketing to begin with, so I'm basically between a rock and a hard place on this one.
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    • Profile picture of the author masterjani
      Originally Posted by newbieontheblock View Post

      Hi masterjani,
      No the website is not blacklisted, they only said that if a certain amount of people press the spam button in the email I sent thru Constantcontact then my website domain could be blacklisted and will be removed from the google website.
      Any emails that have come back bounced, they have been taken off the list and will never receive another email from me, as I dont want to get into trouble in the first place.

      Hi Ashfaq,
      Apologies for posting here, I thought this would come under SEO,
      My initial plan was to send all the emails this week, and then do a monthly or bi-monthly email, but from what happened when I sent those 5,000 emails and the threat of being blacklisted, I'm afraid to continue.
      As I said, the website is responsible for keeping us open in the past few years, and I dont want to jeopardize that in any way.
      Even if it means not sending out the rest of those emails, which kind of defeats the purpose of me trying to do internet marketing to begin with, so I'm basically between a rock and a hard place on this one.
      Basically we do get tons of emails.But there must be an option to unsubscribe,so no need to worry about blacklisting.If it is the problem change to aweber.It is the better option and email marketing will not give problem, if you have opt out option same as opt in option.
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      • Profile picture of the author newbieontheblock
        Originally Posted by masterjani View Post

        Basically we do get tons of emails.But there must be an option to unsubscribe,so no need to worry about blacklisting.If it is the problem change to aweber.It is the better option and email marketing will not give problem, if you have opt out option same as opt in option.
        thanks for confirming that masterjani, but Im only going on the advice of what the people at CContacts told me.
        I do have an unsubscribe option on the very top of the email I sent and if people open the email, its the first thing they'll actually see, then I list my services.

        I mean think about all the Jcpenny, sears, walgreen, walmart, macys emails that are sent and people press the spam button on them.
        If that was the case their own websites would be blacklisted. Yes?
        I know I'm not on the scale of these companies, but would there be different rules for me and my company?
        The last thing I need now is the website to be blacklisted because I'm only hanging on by a thread as it is. and I really need for this email campaign to take off to keep afloat.
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  • Profile picture of the author algarve
    I would suggest you could try putting a html form code on your site that is linked to a different email provider. that way the worst that could happen is the email provider gets blocked and not you web site, unless someone thinks this would not work as this forum has people that always know better than us this is how we learn, and thankful for it too
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    • Profile picture of the author newbieontheblock
      Originally Posted by algarve View Post

      I would suggest you could try putting a html form code on your site that is linked to a different email provider. that way the worst that could happen is the email provider gets blocked and not you web site, unless someone thinks this would not work as this forum has people that always know better than us this is how we learn, and thankful for it too
      Thanks for the input Algarve, I would be reluctant to do that in the first place as it may compromise my ranking I usually rank in the first two pages of google but I will discuss that with the guy who put the website up in the first place tomorrow, anybody have any other ideas.

      And yes Algarve this is why I came to this forum in the first place, and I have done a bit of lurking here, but I still have a LOT to learn obviously.
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  • Profile picture of the author newbieontheblock
    If a moderator can place this in the
    Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum

    I'd appreciate it very much. Thanks from a newbie.
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    • Profile picture of the author newbieontheblock
      Does anybody else have any valuable information to add here, I'm still sweating on this one.

      I thought of one maybe,
      setting up a gmail or yahoo or aol address with my company name and sending out the rest of the emails as a bcc, in groups of 300 per day.

      I know this number because I tried sending out 1'000 a few months ago, and my BUSINESS email was blocked for a day. which is why I started researching bulk email sending companies.


      So I send out 300 per day, clean all the bounce backs from my constant contact list, and everything should be good?

      Ok people are going to press the spam button on emails regardless for whatever reason,
      and thats the crux of the problem
      These are not emails targeting kids, or attorneys, or firemen, or everybody and anybody.
      These are for construction market only, so why are they still pressing the spam button.
      Is my subject heading wrong. What am I overlooking?
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