Hey everyone, this isn't Clay related but figured folks here might've hit this before, so wanted to ask. We recently bought a couple of microsoft email domains from a well-known provider for cold emailing, warmed them up for 30-40 days, and within a day or two of launching the campaign we got blacklisted by SURBL. The odd part is our emails have zero links in them. Double checked through the sending platform, nothing there. Still got flagged. Has anyone dealt with this before? Curious what actually worked for you to get delisted, and if there's anything specific SURBL looks for beyond just links (maybe something in headers, content patterns, sending behavior, etc). Now we're looking at the SURBL delisting request, and there are two questions that are tripping us up:
Description of the website and organization
How the website isn't being advertised through unsolicited messages
Here's the tricky part: these domains do have redirects set up to our main company website. So even though the emails themselves have no links, the domain itself technically points somewhere. Wondering how others have approached these two questions when there's a redirect involved. Do you describe the destination site honestly and explain the redirect's purpose, or do you frame the domain purely as a sending identity and leave the redirect out? Trying to figure out the right way to answer this so it holds up if they check the domain themselves, rather than just writing something that sounds good on paper. Any tips or war stories appreciated š
Hey guys, I'm building a contact sourcing workflow in Clay and would love some advice on the final LinkedIn lookup step. Here's my current workflow:
Import contacts from my personal CRM into Clay.
Use Clay to find additional people at those same companies based on specific job title filters.
Use the Clay + Apollo integration to find even more contacts with relevant titles.
Merge and deduplicate the results.
At that point, I still have some companies where I know there are likely additional relevant contacts, but neither my CRM nor Apollo found them. My question is: What's the most credit-efficient way to add one final LinkedIn search step for only those remaining contacts at those companies? I'm not trying to scrape everyone at a company. I just want to search LinkedIn for people at companies where there are still gaps and return anyone whose title matches a predefined list (or close variations). I'd love advice on:
Which LinkedIn connector or integration in Clay works best for this.
How you structure the search (company + multiple title variations).
Whether there's a smarter way to do this.
Any tips for keeping Clay credit usage low and avoiding duplicate contacts.
Curious how others have built this final "fill in the gaps" step in their workflows. Thanks!
