Conflict between WP-ContactForm and Gmail spam filter
Hello again. It has been about ten days from my last post. Actually I was not busy, but just not having the mood to write. It is quite a good news because now I am certified as not a blogacholic blogger. By the way, it is not a good practice to let your blog not updated for 10 days. According to this graph from Sitemeter.com, this site suffered loosing of visitors.
Regarding the title of this entry, all emails sent to me using the WP-ContactForm plugin are considered as spam in my GMail. Even after I tagged the emails as “not spam”, the next emails still land in the Spam folder. To solve this problem, I switched to another contact from plugin, intouch. But the result is negative.
Luckily, I have found the solution, although it is not so ideal. You just need to change your gmail address in the WP-ContactForm option page to Yahoo Mail address or other not-so-good-at-filtering-spam email providers.
I don’t get why your traffic would be down because of an email glitch. The two are totally unrelated.
Traffic all over the web is a mess in the statistics, if you haven’t been paying attention to the Google Reader and Feedburner issues. Maybe that’s the point, or something else is at issue.
Page visits and email are completely unrelated. I’d try to find something else causing the traffic problem.
Lorelle, the two things are unrelated. I think that you have misunderstood the content of my post. Owh, is my English that bad?
I am writing about the problem of using WP-ContactForm with GMail, and it has nothing to do with traffic. The statistic part is just the intro part showing to my readers, that your traffic will be decrease if you keep your blog not updated.
Ah, it appeared that the two were connected. Sorry about that. Just goes to show “one topic per post”.
Thanks for clearing that up for me.