I was wrong….
When I first wrote Quit Being a Wage Slave a year ago, I had advised never to use GoDaddy as a web hosting service, but that it was O.K. to register your domain names with them. Well…..
I was wrong. Let me explain.
First of all, GoDaddy is not Internet Marketing friendly. What that means is that, if you were to get a spam complaint, (it doesn’t matter whether or not the complaint is correct or not) Go Daddy will
shut down your site immediately, no questions asked. It can take weeks to months to resolve the issue with you, as the site owner, responsible for proving you have not spammed anyone.
In my book
I was wrong.
A while after my book was published, I discovered that it was NOT O.K. to even register a domain name with GoDaddy for the very same reason that I just explained. I had sent an email to everyone that purchased the home training course and advised using NameCheap.com instead.
Anyone that purchased the home training course, and has remained a subscriber to my list, will find this correction when the updated version gets released.
The reason I am telling you about this is because GoDaddy has taken it upon themselves to again be the bully (Spam Nazi?) that they are, but this time it could be affecting your email.
This is a copy of excerpt from an email I received from Andy Williams. You may view the original newsletter at EZSeoNews.com
Please read this at it could be adversely affecting your business
without you realizing it.
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ISPs Blocking your email?
– — – — – — – — – — – — – — – — –I got a support ticket from a newsletter reader this week that got
me thinking about how widespread a problem this might be.In the ticket, Linda told me:
“Just a heads up – anyone hosting a website with GoDaddy likely
will not be receiving email generated by GetResponse, Aweber,
WizardResponder, and possibly others. They are being blocked by
GoDaddy.I found this out when my brother was supposed to be receiving the
certain same emails as me but he wasn’t. He contacted GoDaddy and
they confirmed that some servers were being blocked because of
complaints.For example, he receives email from Martin Avis at his one email
address but not the one hosted with GoDaddy.Autoresponder services seem to be on their way out for Internet
Marketers. In future, we’ll probably have to have autoresponder
software
AutoResponderPlus right now. Any comments?”I know that services like Aweber work hard at maintaining
relationships with ISPs to prevent this type of thing from
happening.When you think about it, ISPs should not have the right to do this.
Aweber forces people who send a newsletter to use double opt-in.That means that if you get an email sent to you from Aweber, YOU,
and ONLY YOU, authorized that email to be sent. The only way that
statement is not true is if someone else is reading and replying to
your emails.So why should complaints get Aweber blocked, after all the
complaints are from people who are essentially lying when they call
the email spam!ISPs who do this are depriving their customers of their rights.
Are any of you using Go Daddy hosting and receiving this newsletter
at a Go Daddy hosted email address? If so, please leave an “I’m
with Go Daddy” comment at the end of this newsletter.Incidentally, I asked Aweber about this potential problem, and this
is what they told me:“When we send out a message for you, it is sent to the ISP that you
are using, in conjunction with the email client you have chosen.
Once that message reaches the ISP, it is then in their control to
place that message into the inbox, a spam folder, or completely
filter that out based on their standards. Any number of words or
phrases could have affected the placement of that email that was
sent, or it could have been any number of filters that are a part
of that email client (user or server enabled).Since ISPs do not release their full filtering criteria, for
obvious reasons, you will never be able to tell why that or any
message is placed into a spam folder.Different domains, have different filters and it appears that these
subscribers’ domain is filtering your message, but that doesn’t
mean that other messages won’t be delivered.I can assure you we are in no way “blocked”.
OK, that brings us onto Linda’s second question.
‘Autoresponders installed on your own domains.’DON’T DO IT! You have been warned. These scripts send out emails from your own domain, and from your own email address. All it will
take is a couple of spam complaints and you’ll get your domain and
hosting closed down by your host. And if you think you wont get
spam complaints because you feel your newsletter is interesting and
informative? Don’t believe it. I get 1 or 2 spam complaints EVERY
TIME I send out a newsletter ; (When I told Linda about this, she replied:“I realize that having an autoresponder on your own server can be
hazardous if you’re a spammer but with a double opt-in there’s a
record to follow as proof for the IP. That’s my opinion. I’m
considering AutoResponder Plus at the moment but want to do more
research first.”Well Linda, and anyone else who thinks the same, what did Go Daddy
apparently do? Didn’t you tell me they BLOCKED Aweber emails
because of a spam complaint, even though Aweber is 100% double
opt-in? The fact your mailing list is double opt-in will have no
bearing on trigger happy ISPs.
‘Thank you’, goes to Andy for granting the permission to pass this on to you to keep you all informed. Again, you can read his entire newsletter post at:
Remember also, that Yahoo and Gmail have changed their email policies as I explained in the posting :
New Changes Can Affect Your Email Optins
I would suggest that everyone contact their ISP and ask whether double opt-in services like Aweber, WizardResponder and GetResponse are blocked from receiving email, and if so, ask them why.
If you find any ISPs that are doing this, please leave a comment on this blog post.
Reader Comments
Thanks for the information. I will transfer my GoDaddy domains to NameCheap instead