“How’s our deliverability doing? Oh, it’s really strong—we’ve seen a delivery rate of 98% for the last few email campaigns, with only a small handful of bounces.” If you’ve ever heard someone say this sentence, you’ve witnessed someone fall for the often-confused difference between email delivery rate and email deliverability.
Deliverability is not the same as delivery rate.
Even if the latter is healthy, you can still have issues with the former.
In this post, we’ll go over each term and cover what you need to know to optimize your delivery rate and deliverability so they’re working together for your email marketing program.”