Are You Guilty of Annoying Emails?

A little off the topic of SEO, but everyone in today's networked environment has to pay attention to how we're communicating through email.

Plenty has been written to date, and most of us are aware of no brainers like don't send emails when you're emotionally worked up, keep in mind that once you send an email there's the potential that it could be seen by others than intended, and proofread your writing.

But a new survey by Creative Group has detailed what marketing and ad execs find the most annoying among email habits these days. I know I'm guilty of one or two occasionally, so read on and see if you can improve your email habits, too.

29% - receiving big attachments when they weren't expecting them (Hint: you can link to many larger files so you don't have to attach them. Make sure photos, etc., are resized to an email-friendly size.)

29% - unnecessary emails from dialogues using "reply all'. (Only send your reply to everyone if it's important to everyone.)

16% - unnecessarily long emails. (This is where I think I'm guilty sometimes. Next time, I might try to summarize info at the top or provide more point form text to make my emails scannable by my busy boss and colleagues.)

13% - typos and grammar mistakes. (A toughie for some, as spell check doesn't catch misused words, and who has time to have every email checked by your friend who's an English expert, like you might with school work or more formal communications...)

6% - having to scroll. (Guess this comes from emails that are too long...)

7% - other/don't know.

I'd have to add to my email pet peeves being forwarded jokes I have to link to or open and emails with vague subject lines. I want to know exactly what the email contains from the subject line, so I can find it easily later, especially if it's from someone who emails me often.

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