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Cold Email Content Guidelines

Updated over a week ago

1. Keep Emails Plain and Personal

HTML-heavy, image-rich, or template-looking emails often get flagged as promotions or spam.

Best Practice:

  • Stick to plain text emails (avoid using images in the signatures even for 1st email especially).

  • Avoid links in first-touch messages.

  • Limit each email to 50–125 words (ideally under 750 total characters).

  • Don’t include attachments.


2. Avoid Spam Trigger Words

Certain words signal promotional or suspicious activity to spam filters, we have our spam counting feature, please use that.

Examples to avoid:

“Free,” “100% guarantee,” “Act now,” “Buy now,” “Earn money fast”


3. Use Spintax to Add Variability

Repeated email templates across a campaign increase the risk of getting flagged for low content diversity.

Solution:

Use Spintax (e.g., “Hi {John|there|team}”) or merge tags to create dynamic variations and prevent repetition-based spam triggers.

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