Can you use “free” in your subject line?

Posted December 17th, 2010. Filed under E-Mail Marketing

The experts at Mailer Mailer analyzed over 300,000 keywords in subject lines.

Their finding: “free” was one of the top subject lines that get prospects to open e-mails, despite spam filters.

For retailers, “free shipping” gets prospects to click through.

Other words that get prospects to open e-mails: events, news, newsletter, sale, tonight, and update.

Avoid the worst e-mail ever.

Posted December 17th, 2010. Filed under Website Development

Trey Smith almost got banned from Google the other day.

They told him he had ONE LAST CHANCE or he would be banned FOR LIFE from Google.

He had been doing a bunch of iframes and B.S. like that.

He used some software to build a killer website and then submitted it to Google.

They loved it and put him on their internal “white list”.

If you want to see what he did to make them happy and how you can keep the same thing from happening to you, go here.