Free-For-All Sites and Email Spam
Free-For-All Idea, Good or Bad?
By: Teodor M Muntean
Have you ever tried to submit your web site to free-for-all sites? Almost anyone who has tried submitting to FFA traffic-generating sites will say that they are no longer worth the effort.
Most of Automated FFA submission sites are only "visited" by automated submission scripts and not by human eyes. So, the only thing these auto submission tools achieve is to get your mail address bombarded with "confirmation" emails from the FFA page holders.
Many credulous users who submitted their personal email address to FFA have suffered incredible frustrations because of the big amount of spam they receive.
However, I’m one of this "victims" of the confirmation spam and, as Karen Weir suggested, I’ve managed to turn the tables around with a very ingenious twist to the process.
I basically submitted my web site using the FFA auto submission tool and agreed to get the "thousands" of confirmatory emails, but submitted an e-mail address that led to an autoresponder that replied back to these emails with the following text:
"Thank you for your offer which I'm considering... and will read it and respond asap. In the meantime, please have a look at my web site yourself to this free marketing tool: http://www.nosecretmarketing.com.
Kind Regards,
Teodor“
Also, Google and Yahoo mail has “Vacation Setting†option so it’s easy to do it. Outlook Express also has message rule function which we can use to achieve a similar effect. Simply click on tools / message rules / mail / mail rules / new / where the message is from the specified account (the e-mail account you intend to receive confirmatory spam with) /reply with message, then specify the message you want to reply with.
Don't forget to also freely distribute your Google / Yahoo email address to multiple mailing lists, classified ads sites, and anywhere that is likely to get your address "spammed".
The best part is when "spambots" and bulk e-mail address harvesters pick up your email address and you'll be promoting your site to many people with absolutely no effort on your part at all! My subscriber list is bigger now but still have to work to get my email addresses to spambots.
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Comments (14)
Stacey Whitney6
Internet Marketer
Great advice, I have always kept one email that I can just go in there and not even look, just delete! Works wonders for your mouse and finger.
Hanan D.6
Writer & Translator
Good advice, I think we all have enough emails to check, no need for spam.
Mahesh K.2
Affiliate Markter
There needs to be something in return for you or else any system can be abused. So free-for-all is not always good idea.
Jan aka Jaz Green7
I know this is REAL! It is not a good idea to use a ISP email address to freelance surfiing type sites. It is best to use a web based email address.
Teodor M.11
Blockchain Real Estate
So, it's better to follow Jeunelle's advice!. Try to close the account and open new one. Or setup to delete bulk emails. By redirecting to the autoresponder I see I have not very good results...
Jennifer Underwood11
Promoter
I made a mistake with that crud...and my email box would get thousands of emails in a day! Aggggggggh talk about aggravating!
Teodor M.11
Blockchain Real Estate
Agree. Ad blasters are blowing up (as the name says) all your good work.
Teodor M.11
Blockchain Real Estate
I'm not submitting anymore to FFA but in the past I did and still have about 1000 junk emails coming in my mail boxes. So, I had to do something about it, to cancel email accounts or to redirect emails to my autoresponder. Today, you're right, is not good to deal with FFA, at all, but you still receive junk mails, so those should be redirected.
Jerry Navarro3
Webmaster
Hi Coach,
FFA page is now being banned by the big boys of search engine marketing. It used to work before but as it is being abused, it becomes useless and obsolete.
If you are an FFA site owner, you will greatly benefit from this as what Jeff advised, you reverse engineer the scenario.
You will be promoting your products to all members that will be joining to your FFA page.
Do you know of any FFA reseller? I believe they are making money from this, otherwise, they are already extin
Sherri-Anne Myers8
Ladystrange Lingerie
Hmm, sounds interesting. I am going to have to put this on my to do list.
Teodor M.11
Blockchain Real Estate
Thanks Jeff. Good advice.
Jeff Greene8
Online Marketing Specialist/Consultant
Your use of reverse marketing makes good sense, also using a throw-away email address in the mix when signing up for free stuff is a very good idea, too-- they forward your mail to a selected address- say for example your auto-responder at Gmail- and you never have to even see the stuff! LOL! :)
Try this- use a free Gishpuppy.com email to sign up for an FFA- set Gishpuppy to forward your mail to Gmail- set up the Gmail auto-responder with your marketing message and forget it!
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