Email Deliverability.
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The ability of an email to successfully reach the recipient's inbox rather than being filtered to spam or rejected entirely.
Email deliverability is the rate at which emails successfully arrive in recipients' inboxes, as opposed to being filtered to spam folders, blocked by email providers, or bouncing. It's determined by a combination of technical authentication, sender reputation, content quality, and list health. High deliverability is the prerequisite for all other email marketing performance metrics.
Technical Deliverability Factors
The technical foundation of deliverability rests on three authentication records: SPF (Sender Policy Framework: authorises which servers can send email for your domain); DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail: cryptographically signs emails to verify they haven't been tampered with); and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance: tells email providers what to do with messages that fail SPF/DKIM). All three should be correctly configured before sending at scale.
Engagement and Reputation
Beyond technical factors, email provider algorithms (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo) assess sender reputation based on recipient engagement: open rates, click rates, manual spam markings, and unsubscribes. Sending to unengaged subscribers who delete without opening, or who mark messages as spam, progressively damages sender reputation and deliverability. Regular list cleaning, removing or re-engaging inactive subscribers, is essential maintenance.
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