I wanted to get this post up now, especially since blackhatmoneymaker is fully available to the community . I wanted to get this up sooner, but I'm in the middle of a launch and things have been insane for me this week...

As you guys know, I've been working with CL traffic quite a bit in the past months, so I've gained some pretty good insight as to what works and what doesn't... what will get your emails through, and what will cause them to get blocked. My experience has taught me the following when mailing CL:

* I want to start with the core principle you should live by when mailing CL: variation. You need to vary the content of every single email that passes through their filters as much as possible--this can be achieved through the use of tokens (or variables) within the body of the email... i.e. [Hello|Hi there|Greetings]... if you have a bunch of these sprinkled throughout the email, you'll never send the same email twice, which for us is ideal.

* Always, always send emails with the subject as "Re: [Subject of Post]"... why send groups of emails at a time all with the same subject? You're making it waaaay too easy for Craigslist to bounce your emails all day long. They don't always tell you when they do, either... only when you get to the "limit" for one email in a 24 hour period.

* Don't blast (spam) out emails to entire sections. Honestly guys, this will do three things more often than not: 1. This is the absolute quickest way to get more consistent elements of your email body blacklisted... for example, URLs. 2. You WILL get spam complaints eventually... I dont mean to you, either... I mean the CPA merchant or the network. Someone always goes out of their way to report it when you're emailing to that many people. Spam complaints almost always end up in getting booted from a network. Companies are scared shitless of that word. 3. It will waste your time and resources.

* Targeted mailing... and I mean TARGETED mailing is where it's at, and it's how you are going to turn those people posting on CL into cold, hard cash for yourself. How do you do this? Well, you could start off by using search terms to target a very distinct type of person that would no doubt be INTERESTED in what you have to offer them. I always search titles, too... they get the most relevant results. For more ways to make your emails insanely relevant to who you're mailing to, You will be blown away by the boost in response you get when you implement strategies like the couple that I outline in posts.

* Using HTML: I never use ANY HTML code whatsoever in my emails... they are 100% plain text. If you want to get through spam filters, it's gotta be plain text. I don't use images either, because pretty much all the major providers these days block them by default anyway. If you want the receiver to see a clickable URL, just put the address itself, with no HTML code to create a link (<a href="....) ... if you just put the URL as text, the major providers (MSN, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc) will automatically turn it into a clickable link.

* Using URLs: CL does filter URLs after a certain number of times passing through their systems, there's absolutely no doubt about that. My rule: for every 100 emails I send through CL's filters, I use a different URL. If I know Im going to be sending 1000 emails in a day, I make sure to have 10 URLs registered and ready to go... .info's work great for tests... they are only $2 a pop. If I keep a URL from going through CL's filters less than 100 times a day, I can use them repeatedly and inbox them all day long... I know from my own quality checks + the response I get

* If I have an offer that's doing well, Ive even tried just writing out the URL (myurl (dot) com, myurl [.] com, myurl -dot- com, etc.] Even though I initially thought this would look spammy or cheap to people... I STILL got amazingly good traffic from people that would type the URL in. Also, look at it this way: the people that actually take the extra step to type in the URL manually are going convert higher on your offer anyway.

So that's basically it... the main idea is that if you can send out 1000 emails a day, and not have two emails that are exactly alike, you're doing fine, and CL will typically leave you alone. Remember, they blacklist and ban based on recurring patterns... if you can avoid patterns altogether, you're in the clear.