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How to Set Up DomainKeys to Successfully Deliver Emails to Yahoo and MSN(Hotmail/Live)

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:26:38 -0800

Long gone is the day where your server program can just send emails to anyone without getting rejected or filtered as spam.

This is especially true with email to Yahoo users. It appears that Yahoo just out-right dismisses any email that's not signed with DomainKeys. Your non-DomainKeys-signed emails will not even appear in a Yahoo user's spam box.

In my testing, hotmail/live mail puts non-DomainKeys-signed emails into spam box. Even though GMail checks DomainKeys and SPF record, it is most liberal in letting emails through even when emails doesn't have DomainKeys signing or SPF record.

Tags: yahoo email delivery anti-spam gmail hotmail live.com aol domainkeys dkim

First Look at Clickriver - Amazon's Pay Per Click(Sponsored Link) Advertising Program for Service Providers

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:52:01 -0800

Clickriver Ads, the sponsored links program from Amazon, lets service providers reach active shoppers on Amazon.com via pay per click advertising. For example, for a lawyer, he can advertise his service targeting users in his region that browses and searches for legal books on Amazon. Amazon has a good "How it works" page.

Here's my impression with Clickriver:

Clickriver structures your ppc marketing with the hierarchy of campaigns and ads. * A campaign with a daily budget can hold multiple ads.

Tags: google yahoo amazon adwords ppc msn service clickriver panama adcenter advertising

SBC Yahoo DSL Installation Experience

Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:14:40 -0800

I just switched my ISP from Comcast to SBC Yahoo DSL. It's troublesome experience(again).

I used SBC Yahoo DSL before I used Comcast. I really hated my first SBC Yahoo DSL installation experience because I had to install loads of useless programs from the SBC Yahoo DSL cd in order to get my sbcglobal.net user and password(Yahoo DSL requires user name/password for connecting through my router. In contrast, Comcast doesn't require any of that).

Second time around, I was determined not to install anything from the SBC Yahoo DSL cd. After 11pm on the day that SBC was supposed to activate my service, I searched around and found that I could use https://sbcreg.sbcglobal.net/ to get my user name and password according SBC DSL FAQ. I went there, re-used my previous user name/password, and associate my username with my home phone number. But the registration process always got stucked on the blank page at http://isp.member.yahoo.com/regisp/y/dsl_resume. Using the user name/password, I couldn't get any DSL service. I finally gave up.

Tags: sbc yahoo dsl