Gmail Security Update – How It Could Impact Your Business in 2024

Gmail is strengthening its security with new regulations, targeted at bulk email senders, which could impact how your business sends out campaigns.

Gmail Update 2024

In 2024, Gmail’s update will require bulk senders to authenticate their emails. The reason for this is to allow users to easily unsubscribe and to afford them enhanced spam protection.

Gmail already has many security features to protect users from spam, phishing and malware; however, with email being one of the main sources of communication, fighting spam is a constant process.

The new update will affect senders who send more than 5,000 messages to Gmail addresses daily.

Email Validation

The primary focus of the new email security update is to ensure that senders verify that they are who they say they are. This allows users to feel confident when relying on an email’s source.

For example, if you use Campaign Monitor, you can authenticate your email by enabling SPF, DKIM and DMARC.

Simple Unsubscribe

Large senders will now need to give users the ability to unsubscribe from commercial emails in one click. Additionally, unsubscribe requests will need to be processed within 2 days.

Spam Threshold

Although Gmail already includes many features to keep unwanted emails at bay, they will now enforce a clear spam threshold that senders must stay under. Hopefully this will reduce spam in a user’s inbox.

Steps to Get Your Email Seen

Here are a few steps that your company can make to ensure marketing emails are not flagged as spam.

• Personalise your emails, to ensure they are seen as valuable
• Create more manual emails which helps to reduce the volume of generic emails
• Include unsubscribe links to emails ensuring they are visible

Yahoo is also implementing similar requirements. By enforcing new rules, it will allow users to more easily  find the messages that mean something to them, making it more user friendly.