Month: August 2011

Monitor Bounces: Email

Like websites, there’s a temptation to look at the positive metrics rather than improving negative ones.  Bounces from email is a great indicator of list health. An email campaign that has a low bounce rate (under 10%) is often a well built list that is regularly maintained.  The benefit of this is that it usually

Monitor Bounces: Websites

When reviewing website performance we tend to gravitate toward the positive interactions.  These are the metrics we hope will be high: visits, clicks, conversions, etc.  However it can be equally important to measure the negative interactions, opt outs and bounces.  By keeping those numbers low we increase the opportunities that the positive interactions have.  Bounces