{"id":617,"date":"2009-06-13T21:35:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T21:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bme2.flywheelsites.com\/blog\/image-only-html-emails-getting-blocked\/"},"modified":"2020-01-30T18:16:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T18:16:27","slug":"image-only-html-emails-getting-blocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benchmarkemail.com\/in\/image-only-html-emails-getting-blocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Image-Only HTML Emails Getting Blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think one image will convey your message more effectively than 50 words?<br \/>\nWell, certainly not, at least as far as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benchmarkemail.com\/resources\/email-marketing-articles\">email marketing<\/a> is concerned because your email message containing only an image might be categorized as spam by leading search engines.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/blog\/image-only-email.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"182\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benchmarkemail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/image-only-email.gif\" width=\"680\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s the key to this little scenario? 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