Email Boxes for Safelists

One of the most critical parts of your Safelist Toolbox is an Email Box.

For all their ability to get you good advertising, Safelists do have their down sides. One of these downsides is the sheer volume of email that you will receive.

You will need two email addresses to use any Safelist.

One is termed your contact list, where the Safelists administrators will get hold of you. It is imperative that you have regular access to the email address that you use for this, because if the administrators emails bounce, you will be put on vacation (which means that you will not be able to submit ads to the other members) at the Safelist (or worse, deleted!).

The other email address is called the 'list' or 'subscriber' address. Because of the number of Safelists that you must join to make this strategy effective, you will receive thousands of emails in return. You aren't expected to read them all of course (but you should scan them from time to time). But you must manage the email, because if you don't, the messages will bounce, and you will be put on vacation.

So, the answer is an email box designed specifically for this purpose.

The one that I recommend from YourBizHelp is an excellent tool for the job. It comes in two flavours, the only difference being price and the volume of email that they will hold.

Their other great feature is an auto clean. This means that al the email is deleted once a day (usually in the wee small hours of the morning USA time). So, you have to be careful when you join Safelists. You should allow plenty of time to log into your email box and validate the email addresses that are sent to you.

This is done with filters.

Tip

I recommend that you try and join Safelists to coincide with the morning in the US. Your box will be relatively empty at that time, and everything will work much more quickly. The good thing about these are that you can run the filters on your emails once, and then those emails are safe from deletion, and you can validate them at your leisure (but don't leave them too long, because some Safelists only allow a short time to validate before you have to re-join the list.

Using Filters with YourBizHelp

I have assumed that you have logged into your Email box at this stage.

1.	Click on the 'Inbox' hyperlink on the top left of the screen.
2.	Click on the 'Folders' Hyperlink.
3.	Click on the drop down box and create a new folder called (for example) 'Validations' (you can call it anything that you like.
4.	Save.
5.	Click on the 'Options' hyperlink in the middle of the top of the screen.
6.	Click on the 'filters' link in the Mail Management section.
7.	Click on the 'Edit Filter Rules' link.
8.	You will need to create individual rules for each scenario. What you are trying to do is catch some specific text in the validation emails that you receive. The picture below itemises the filters that I apply, which catch all of the situations that I have come across thus far. Type in the text for each individual rule, click on the 'Subject' field, click on the 'move message to' radio box and then select the 'Validations' folder (or whatever you have called it) from the drop down box. Then click on the <Create> button. Repeat for each rule shown above.