Do Safelists Deliver The Goods?

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Internet Marketing's first lesson is that spam is something you just do not do. It can get you in more trouble than you ever imagined, including being banned or fined. Because of that, hundreds of thousands of people have begun to rely on and use safelists. These are gigungulous email lists of people who have agreed to let someone (anyone) send them some information about something. They end up being huge exchanges of spam among people who don't read them.

Just to see how they work, and to see if they indeed drive traffic to my site, I set myself up with four safelists: GlobalSafelist, Croc-Ads, Herculist, and ListDotCom. I basically picked these randomly from the hundreds available. For each one, I entered the information for my email, which I pictured as going to millions of unsuspecting email boxes, standing out from the two or three others which safely made their way there.

Instead, my own mailbox was filled to the brim with emails. I got over fifty the first hour, about one a minute. I had over two hundred by the time I logged off for the day. By the end of the week, I was getting over SIX HUNDRED emails every day day, all promising me that I could make the most money for the least effort. Think about that for a minute. Six hundred emails a day. That's about one every two minutes 24/7. I don't even scan through them anymore. I just select all and delete.

Here then, is my advice on safelists: (if you really think you have to use one)

1. Create a new email account first. Gmail seems to work the best, as it can easily handle the volume, but almost any provider will do if they don't have traffic limits. Just make sure you have an address different from your regular email box.

2. Begin with only one safe list. Wait for your inbox volume to level out. You might want to add another one, but if you start with six hundred emails a day like I did, you won't read any of them anyway. You will spend more time deleting them than reading them.

3. Track your results for a week. If your own website is not experiencing an increase in traffic, cancel and move on.

My conclusion, based on first hand experience, is that there are far more effective ways to drive traffic than safelists. They might have been a good idea a few years ago, but for now, they offer no way to stand out from the other 599 emails.

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