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What Is an Email Blacklist? (And How To Avoid Ending Up on One)

Have you noticed a sharp drop in your email deliverability lately? Your email sending IP or domain might be on a blocklist. Find out more about what email blacklists and blocklists are, how they work, how you can avoid ending up on one, and what to do if you're listed on a blocklist.
What Is an Email Blacklist?
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How To Set Up a BigCommerce Store From Scratch

BigCommerce has earned a reputation as being one of the most flexible and scalable eCommerce platforms out there. While it's not a popular choice for beginners, with a little guidance you can easily set up a BigCommerce store and start selling in no time at all. Follow our step-by-step beginner's tutorial which will take you from signing up for BigCommerce to launching your store.
How To Set Up a BigCommerce Store From Scratch
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How to Warm Up Email Domains and Why It’s Important

If you’ve just set up a new website or you’re starting a business, it’s natural to want to kick off your marketing strategy with an email campaign. But sending promotional emails (or even transactional emails) from a brand new domain with no reputation may result in them being marked as spam. In this post, we explain exactly how to warm up a new domain for sending email and go over some other best practices to ensure your emails reach the inbox.
How to Warm Up Email Domains and Why It's Important
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How To Set Up Joomla: Installation and Tutorial for Beginners

Is thinking about how to set up Joomla making you dizzy? Joomla may not be as popular as WordPress and other content management systems, but it's fairly user friendly and very flexible. In this step-by-step tutorial, we'll walk you through setting up your first Joomla site from installing the software and setting up your email to changing templates, adding extensions, and organizing content.
How To Set Up Joomla Installation and Tutorial for Beginners
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How To Improve Transactional Email Design: Best Practices & Examples

You probably don't put a lot of thought into the design or content of your transactional emails such as order confirmations, password reset emails, and welcome messages. But these emails are a fantastic opportunity to connect with your customers, strengthen your brand, and make more sales. In this post, we've curated some examples of great transactional email design along with some tips and best practices to help you improve the emails sent automatically from your site.
How To Improve Transactional Email Design: Best Practices & Examples
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How To Set Up QuickBooks Desktop for the First Time

If you're looking for accounting software to help you run your business, QuickBooks is a popular choice. In this tutorial, we'll take you through what you need to install and set up QuickBooks on your computer so you can send invoices, receive payments, and pay bills.
How to Set Up QuickBooks Desktop for the First Time
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What Is Domain Reputation and How Can You Improve It?

Domain reputation is one of the main factors affecting email deliverability. Because there's no single answer to the question of how domain reputation is calculated, it can seem a bit of a mystery. Read our guide to learn more and find out what you can do to protect and improve your domain reputation.
What Is Domain Reputation and How Can You Improve It?
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How To Set Up a Magento Store: Step-by-Step Tutorial

Are you looking for an open source CMS platform designed for building eCommerce sites? Magento is a highly flexible and powerful option but it can be difficult to set up. Follow our step-by-step guide to configuring Magento to help you set up your online store including basic settings, design, email, products, shipping and payment options, and more.
How To Set Up a Magento Store: Step-by-step Tutorial
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Easy WP SMTP Cyber Monday Sneak Peek

Can't wait for Cyber Monday? Cyber Monday 2024 isn't quite here yet but in this post we'll answer all your questions about the biggest online sale of the year, plus offer you a sneaky advance discount on Easy WP SMTP!
Easy WP SMTP Cyber Monday
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Hard Bounce vs. Soft Bounce Emails (and How To Fix Them)

If you send out emails to a lot of different people, you're sure to experience email bounces from time to time. But what exactly is happening when your email bounces? In this post, we explain the difference between hard and soft email bounces and offer strategies to help reduce your email bounce rate for better deliverability.
Hard Bounce vs. Soft Bounce Emails and How To Fix Them
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Easy WP SMTP Black Friday Sale 2024: Get the Best Deals

Are you looking for great deals for your website during Black Friday 2024? The Easy WP SMTP Black Friday Sale is anticipated to be bigger and better than ever. Fix your WordPress emails at a huge discount. Plus, we've put together some details about other WordPress and website deals that are likely to run on Black Friday 2024, so you can give your site a boost at huge savings.
Easy WP SMTP Black Friday
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Selling Digital Products on Shopify: How To Set Up Your Store

Do you want to sell digital products on Shopify? With an app like Downloadable Digital Assets (DDA), you can automate your Shopify store and send customers links to download their digital files after purchase. In this guide, we show you how to set up Shopify and the DDA app step by step, including adding SMTP email settings to improve deliverability, customizing email templates, and more.
Selling Digital Products on Shopify - How To Set Up Your Store
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Understanding SMTP Errors: What Server Response Codes Mean

SMTP errors and response codes can help you to understand why your emails are bouncing or failing. But decoding these email error codes can be tricky. We've compiled a list of the most common SMTP server errors you're likely to see, along with an explanation and tips for how to fix the problem.
Understanding SMTP Errors - What Server Response Codes Mean
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How To Set Up and Customize WooCommerce Emails

WooCommerce uses the default WordPress PHP email function, which does not always work reliably. To ensure all your transactional emails from WooCommerce are delivered instantly, every time, we've put together this guide on configuring SMTP email settings for your WooCommerce store. As well as making sure your WooCommerce emails reach the inbox of you and your customers, we've also included some handy tips for customizing the text and appearance of messages sent from your online store.
How to Set Up and Customize WooCommerce Emails
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How to Send Email From Your Shopify Marketplace With SMTP

Do you want to set up custom SMTP to improve the deliverability and monitoring of emails sent from your Shopify marketplace? Follow our step-by-step tutorial, which takes you all the way from creating a store with the Multi Vendor Marketplace app through to configuring your SMTP email settings.
How To Send Email from Your Shopify Marketplace With SMTP
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SPF, DKIM, DMARC: How Email Authentication Works

If you want to improve your email deliverability, the first step is to ensure your emails are properly authenticated. Authenticating your domain with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC not only helps your emails reach the inbox, but also prevents spammers from using your domain for phishing attacks. In this article, we explain the different types of email authentication and how they work, and show you an easy way to set them up.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC: How Email Authentication Works
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Metabase Download and Setup: Installation and Quick-Start Guide

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence platform that allows anyone to generate interactive visual reports from any database without writing SQL. Our quick-start guide to installing and setting up Metabase covers everything from configuring your email settings to creating dashboards and visualizations.
Metabase Download and Setup: Installation and Quick-Start Guide
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Why Gmail Is Blocking Your Email (and How To Fix It)

If you're having a problem with emails you send to Gmail users being blocked, it may be an authentication issue. In this post, we explain why Gmail is blocking unauthenticated email, go through the steps to set up SPF and DKIM authentication for your domain, and discuss some other best practices to ensure your emails are accepted successfully by Gmail.
Why Gmail Is Blocking Your Email (and How to Fix It)
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Zoho TeamInbox Setup Guide: Get Started With a Shared Inbox

Zoho TeamInbox is an easy-to-use shared inbox solution that can streamline your communication workflow and make team collaboration easier. In this step-by-step setup guide, we'll take you through the process of setting up TeamInbox for the first time. We'll also go over custom SMTP settings to ensure your email replies aren't marked as spam and reach their intended recipient.
Zoho Team Inbox Setup Guide - How to Get Started With a Shared Inbox
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Why Send Email From a Subdomain?

Email subdomains are an effective way to protect your domain reputation, increase email deliverability, and improve email tracking. In this guide, we'll explain why you might want to send emails from a subdomain and show you the easiest way to set up an email subdomain.
Why Send Email From a Subdomain?