Sender Policy Framework: Preventing Email Spam
Today I learned about the SPF (sender Policy Framework) which is a server side domain record that helps prevent spammers from sending emails claiming to be from your email address.
To do this, one needs access to their control panel for the domain that their email gets sent from. Then, they need to add a record that specifies which servers your email can get sent from. Theoretically with this in place, it should also prevent your outbound email from going into the spam/junk folders of others that receive email from you.
Remember it can take up to 48 hours for this change to take affect before processing…
Basic information about Google Analytics
This is a great overview of how to understand the metrics in Google analytics. This is very basic, but is a great tutorial on how to interpret data about how visitors are using your site.
