Do Safelists Deliver The Goods?

Spam is a giant no-no. It can get you banned, fined, and in more trouble than you ever dreamed. Because of that, millions of people have turned to safelists, which are lists of people who have told someone that it is okay to email them. In reality, they are huge exchanges of spam among people who don't read them.

Just to see how they work in general, as an experiment for myself, and to see if they lived up to the promise of driving traffic to my sites, I set myself up with four safelists: Croc-Ads, GlobalSafelist, Herculist, and ListDotCom. I randomly picked these from the hundreds (or maybe thousands) out there. For all of them, I entered the required information for my own email, along with a zippy headline and content. I viewed these emails going to millions of empty email boxes, finding their way to an eagerly awaiting business opportunity seeker, jumping out at them and demanding a click.

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.

So, here's my advice on safelists: (if you really want to use one)

1. Create a junk email account first. I have found that Gmail works the best, as it can handle the volume easily. Just make it something separate from the mail box where your regular email comes.

2. Sign up for only one safe list. When your inbox volume levels out, you might want to add more, but if you start with six hundred a day like I did, you won't read any of them anyway.

3. Track your results for a week or so. If your website is not getting increased traffic, (actually, increased CONVERTED traffic), cancel your subscription and move on to other options.

My experienced conclusion is that there are several far more effective ways to drive traffic to your landing page. Perhaps they were a good idea at an earlier time, but for now, there is no way to stand out from the crowd.

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