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Images in emails - how do you article syndicators send them?

by Lucian Lada
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So I know attachments are not an option, because the email might end up in the Spam/Junk folder, but how do you article marketers deal with this issue?

I'm in a niche where sometimes the article is accompanied by images, and I don't know how to put these images in front of potential publishers.

I don't want to link to them in the email, because I don't want to give them the change to see the article is already published on my website (which they might think, even if I link directly to the images), and I also don't know what happens if I add them directly in the email - will the email pass the Spam filter safely?
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Lucian Lada View Post

    So I know attachments are not an option, because the email might end up in the Spam/Junk folder, but how do you article marketers deal with this issue?
    Mostly, I don't. I don't use them.

    If I think it's actually going to help to get an article syndicated (according to information given on the site to whose webmaster I'm sending an article), then I occasionally mention in my email that I have an image or two available on request. I certainly wouldn't want to include images in an initial email (unless they've actually suggested it), and I never give them a link to the copy on my own site. Although I have some images on my own sites, they're not in the articles. So I'm not much help to you.

    Originally Posted by Lucian Lada View Post

    I also don't know what happens if I add them directly in the email - will the email pass the Spam filter safely?
    I think that's bound to vary. I'm pretty sure there can't be "one right answer" to this question, because it's going to to depend on people's email security settings, and so on.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      I'm in the "images available on request" camp, as well. If they do request the images, I send them in a zip file as an attachment. Personal, one-off emails with zip files attached seem to do a pretty good job of getting through.
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve B
        Lucian,

        I'm maybe missing your point here, but I get html emails all the time with images embedded that don't go to the spam folder.

        As long as the images add to, rather than detract from, the message I don't see a problem with that. Smaller images seem to do that best.

        Yes, there are some who prefer plain text emails, but that is a debate for a different thread since you asked about using images.

        I know of one article marketer that provides both a pdf version of an html article with images and a plain text version of the article without images and wraps them both in a zip file (as John mentioned above) that she sends to the person using the article so that either one can be copied and pasted and sent to a list or posted to a site.

        Good luck to you.

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