If you want your cold emails to land in your prospects' inboxes, you should keep your bounce rate <5%. Bounce rate is the percentage of your emails that didn’t get delivered, also known as “bounced”.
A high bounce rate can harm your email deliverability which means your message won’t reach your target audience, and you won’t be able to get replies and open new business opportunities..
So how do you ensure your bounce rate is as low as possible?
By doing email verification of the address you're contacting without reaching out first (which can hurt your sender reputation).
In this article, you'll find 5 proven methods to validate email addresses without sending emails.
You can check up to 10 emails for free with our tool:
However, if you've got an email list with a large number of addresses to verify, you can do it in lemlist's Email Finder and Verifier.
A valid email address should have the following format:
a username + "@" symbol + domain name
✅ peterk@johnconsulting.com
❌ peterk.johnconsulting.com
A quick search on Google or social media platforms will show you if the email address is used elsewhere and, therefore, legit ⬇️
Your prospects are more likely to use long-standing domains for work purposes. Newly created email addresses can sometimes be used for spam or similar purposes.
You can check the age of a domain using a domain checker tool like Small SEO Tools!
You can use email verification tools to automate syntax and domain checks and confirm whether the email exists on the server and is still active.
One of the easiest ways to find and verify leads' email addresses on the market is to use lemlist's Email Finder and Verifier.
Thanks to the waterfall enrichment method, Email Finder and Verifier combines the best third-party data sources to give you 40-55% more valid emails. This is the equivalent of asking 6 different providers for up-to-date leads’ information without navigating and subscribing to multiple apps.
Here's how to do it 👇
For leads that already have an email address, you can verify their email address with one click.
In the second step of the campaign setup process for your "Lead list" after importing, you will come across the "Set up import settings" section.
Here, you will have the option to choose from various enrichments, including:
If your leads are already in your campaign - select your leads by bulk or one by one, and click on the three dots at the top right to choose "Verify email".
For each lead, lemlist will:
1. Clean lead's first and last name
2. Extract and save relevant information from their LinkedIn profiles (if available)
3. In case more emails are found, keep the best email found for the lead
4. Display the status of the email
5. If available, save additional information such as phone number, civility, job title, and other relevant details.
By executing these steps, you'll get the lead's comprehensive and accurate information, which will allow you to reach their inboxes and open new opportunities.
In the leads section of your campaign, by hovering above the enrich stats icon, you can see a portion of leads with different statuses in your campaign:
The cost of the following actions:
- Email Finder: 5 credits per lead
- Verify email: 1 credit per lead
- LinkedIn enrichment: 2 credits per lead
New lemlist users receive 100 Free Credits as part of their trial.
Free credits are also included in paying plans, reset monthly. The number of Free Credits varies based on the plan:
Plus, users can purchase Additional Credits for $0.01 each. These credits will fully roll over to next month!
Here's the list of other reliable tools to perform a valid email check:
Simply upload your email list on their platform, and they will deliver you a CSV report that labels undeliverable and risky emails to avoid.
You can spend hours writing perfect emails for the right audience, but if you send them to invalid email addresses, you can’t get replies and grow your business.
You will lose valuable resources and lower your email deliverability, risking your emails landing in the spam folder of even valid addresses.
However, to check whether an e-mail is valid, you first need to find your prospects' e-mails. To do this, you can use our free email finder.