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When we sign up for free newsletters or free e-books download, just before the submit button, there’s a line saying “Your email will never be shared with anyone. We hate spam as much as you do” or something similar.

Fine. So we sign up.

The next day, when you check your email, you see 20 emails with our name in the subject “<name> Increase your…”, “Free report for <name>”, or “<name> Check this out…” etc… all vying for attention.

We think “What is this?!” I did not sign up for all this spam!

It appears that for whatever reason our email had been slam dunked into the list of “wonderful world of spam”.

Shouldn’t these websites deliver what they promised? “100% No spam! We hate it as much as you do…” Apparently our feelings are not mutual.

How to know which of the website(s) is/are responsible for this, especially when we subscribe to 5, 10, 20 newsletters?

One good method:-

Before we hit that “submit” button with our name and email, make sure we make a mark on our name. Give it a special code. E.g. if your name is John and you are signing up with abc123.com newsletter, enter your name as “Johnabc123″ or “abc123John” or any codename you fancy.

That way, when the spams arrive, oh boy do they arrive in grand pomposity, each demanding our special attention… From the subject header with our “codename” we will know which website had generously submit us to the spam list.

Any suggestions you like to share?

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