What Does List Hygiene Mean?

List hygiene is the process of creating, editing and maintaining a mailing list’s email addresses, subscriptions and opt-ins. It ensures the clean dissemination of an organization’s broadcasted email message to its related and operational email addresses/subscribers.

Techopedia Explains List Hygiene

List hygiene may include a number of processes and techniques to clean and optimize an email list, including:

  • Filtering email subscribers by location, gender, marital status and income
  • Deleting email addresses from bounced back emails
  • Updating or deleting user email addresses
  • Updating typos or errors
  • Removing duplicate entries

Filtering email subscribers by location, gender, marital status and income

Deleting email addresses from bounced back emails

Updating or deleting user email addresses

Updating typos or errors

Removing duplicate entries