Comments on: Is Your Site Getting Blocked by Filtering Software?

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By: Kellie Stevens

Kellie Stevens — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:54:48 +0000

I’m getting Business for SpamFilterv4 now too. It could be that the info hadn’t propogated through all their databases last night as Scott suggested.

In general I think it is a good idea for affiliates to stay away from sending emails through free email accounts like Yahoo and Hotmail as they often get flagged by spam blacklist services.

By: Kim Rowley

Kim Rowley — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:43:40 +0000

Hmm, I just checked all the products, and got “Business” Category for SmartFilter v4.

The only emails that go out are through Feedburner, but it’s a Yahoo pipeline of 3 of my RSS feeds since there is no actual feed for that site. I am going to change it to Feedblitz where they have the choice of which feeds they’d like. Do you think that will help, Kellie?

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:52:38 +0000

nope you’re right Kellie, I see the same thing. Maybe I accidentally skipped past that one last time.

By: Daniel M. Clark

Daniel M. Clark — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:04:34 +0000

(forgot to add, for each of my fields it said “insufficient data”, whereas Kim’s said unverified or Spam URLs for two of them)

By: Daniel M. Clark

Daniel M. Clark — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:54:35 +0000

No, they never got as far as sending me any emails or reports or anything… once I hit Submit, I was given that message. There was nothing else, so I guess I’m okay with them, given the absence of anything else

By: Kellie Stevens

Kellie Stevens — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:33:45 +0000

Could be in mid-update. I’d hope one ticket would resolve the issue for all their products.

I got the spam thing for SpamFilter v4. Still got it just now, but maybe I’m cached?

By: Scott Jangro

Scott Jangro — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:12:22 +0000

That tool is much easier Kellie, thanks. I tested all the products on Kim’s url and didn’t see any spam categorizations. Maybe it’s mid-update?

By: Kellie Stevens

Kellie Stevens — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:08:57 +0000

I’m not sure if it’s completely cleared up yet or not for Kim. Go to http://www.trustedsource.org/en/feedback/url to do a single URL test. You’ll see that they have several filtering products….and they seem to have different results for the same URL

For Kim’s site, I got 3 different responses for the 3 different products I checked. One gave me the “business neutral” she appears to have changed. One gave me not enough data. And one gave me categorized as “- Spam Email URLs”

The flagging may be coming from emails and not unmasked affiliate links.

You’d think there would be consistency in how they label a URL between their different filtering products.