Natural SEO SEM Email Glossary
Email stands for Electronic Mail. It is probably the most common form of communication on the Web.
Forums, Chat Rooms and Social Media websites are growing in popularity with the Web 2.0 growth. But email remains as an everyday informal method of keeping in touch with your friends, customers and potential customers. In fact, email marketing is often the primary form of marketing that many ecommerce businesses make.
So it is important that a general understanding be gained about email. It could present a great opportunity for you to supplement your Natural SEO and Natural SEM effort.
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Email Glossary
Discussion List
A group of people discussing a specified topic via email.
Double Opt-In
A member that has asked to receive information or advertising must confirm their desire to receive it by responding to an email message after subscribing.
Double Opt-Out
It is similar to opt-in, but used to unsubscribe from mailers. This option is often not used by some spammers who do not allow subscribers to opt out of their emailings.
Download Message
An email service feature that lets a user save a copy of an email message to their own computer which will be stored as a distinct text file.
E-Bomb
A technique where a large number of mailing lists are targetted, causing each subscriber to email all of the other subscribers. This ties up network traffic, server loads, storage and subscriber time.
Egress Filtering
The process of blocking outgoing packets that use obviously false IP addresses.
E-List
A direct mail list including internet or e-mail addresses used to distribute promotion messages.
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Natural SEO SEM hopes that you find this Email Terms Glossary useful in understanding the Internet - and your place in it.