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: How can I send emails linking to an anonymous website without them being classified as spam? I’ve been trying to set up an anonymous website so I can blog my thoughts on some controversial

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I’ve been trying to set up an anonymous website so I can blog my thoughts on some controversial topics without them being traced back to me. I found a post on here that perfectly fit my situation: How hard is to be the anonymous owner of a website?

Unfortunately, using wordpress.com, tumblr.com, or wix.com isn’t an option like was suggested in the question above, since it doesn’t give me the control I desire. I wanted to be able to run PHP and JavaScript, and have a fully customized design.

So I tried some free web hosting services like 000webhost.com and 5gbfree.com. These were perfect - I was able to do all the things I wanted and had my website all up and running.

One of the things I am planning on doing is starting an email subscription. So I set up a free MailChimp account and started testing an email design. Unfortunately, that’s when I discovered that emails containing a link to my website on subdomains of these web hosts were marked as spam.

So now I’m looking for a solution that provides the full control offered to me by free web hosting services such as 000webhost.com AND the ability to send emails linking to the website without them getting marked as spam.

So what I am asking is: Is my only option to pay for some web space and buy a domain name? Or can I somehow send email with links to an anonymous website without them being filtered as spam?

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@Caterina187

You should check the header of the email, to see why it is classified as spam. While it could be that the link to a specific website contributes to the spam-classification, there should be other factors involved.
mediatemple.net/community/products/dv/204643950/understanding-an-email-header
This is the spam-related part of an email I got:

X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on example.org
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Level: *****************************
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=29.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,BAYES_999,
BODY_URI_ONLY,DSN_NO_MIMEVERSION,FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2,MISSING_MID,
RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_BL,
RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_L5,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_XBL,RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO,RDNS_NONE,
TVD_RCVD_IP,TVD_RCVD_IP4,URIBL_BLACK,URIBL_DBL_SPAM,URIBL_JP_SURBL,URIBL_SBL,
URIBL_SBL_A,URIBL_WS_SURBL autolearn=spam autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0


You see that there is for example a check called BODY_URI_ONLY. So I you only send the link to you website in an email, this might classify as spam.

However it might be that the hosting service you chose has a bad reputation (URIBL_BLACK) and simple adding a link to the website will be enough to classify as spam.

It is realy difficult to tell why an email is classified as spam without knowing:


where it came form
what was the content
how many people got it
...

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