How to find E-mail address on web?
One of the important
things to do PR is the email-address of the opposite person. Most
important thing will be how you write and email. Email is one such
important aspect when you launch a product or notify about an update
or even better, sending out an weekly newsletter to your clients.
I would like to
share how I find email addresses on web. Anyone who uses this steps
is guaranteed to succeed for more than 85% of the times. 85% is a huge
number. Imagine how beneficial this would prove when you are going to
launch a product and wanting a journalist to write about the product.
Let's take up an
example about you launching an mobile application or a gaming
product. And now you want journalists to write about the product
which will help you to gain many new clients/customers.
The first step to
find journalist's email is to go through the article which they've
written. Every other website has a author profile for that
particular journalist. Believe me more than 50% of the time you'd
find email address, twitter handle and sometimes even link to their
Linkedin page over there.
What if you don't
find journalist's email on the publisher website? No issues, you've
their twitter handle. Now this is the tricky part since more that 90%
of the journalist's have shared their email address at least once on
twitter for PR. This twitter handle, believe me is very powerful as
it has the power to reach directly to the original person. Follow
these simple steps to find email.
1. See the bio part
on the left side just below the Display Picture. About 17-18% of time
you'd be able find email address over there and thereby eliminating
the use of handle altogether.
2. Copy the twitter
handle excluding the “@” part. In the search bar on twitter write
this query:
email
from:twitter handle. Doing this
trick will open up all the tweets by the journalist having the key
word “email”.
2
A. Its up to journalist how they share there email address. Believe me
they find many permutations and combinations to tweet their email
address which escapes google crawlers. Lookout for the formats
xyz@gmail.com
xyz
at gmail dot com
xyz
(at) gmail (dot) com
xyz
{at} gmail {dot}
firstname
at gmail
twitter
handle at company
fistname
at company
firstname
dot last name at gmail
3.
Once you get the email you
are good to go.
4.
Many journalists have their own website and they share that link on
their bio section. Just go to their website and grab the email.
Worst
comes to worst and you don't get email from there too. No worries.
Don't loose hope. We still have few more tricks before completely
giving up.
The
use of Email Hunter.
A great tool to extract email id's from the web. If
not the desired one/journalist specific then at least it can be
useful in recognizing the pattern in which other email address are
listed. For example name@company.com
, firstname.lastname@comapny.com
and so on. When you recognize the pattern and frame the particular
email as per pattern then make sure to test whether it's valid or not
using Mail-tester (I'll come on that later).
Recently they have released a plugin for google chrome that comes
handy.
5.
Copy the link of that website and paste it in email hunter. Within a
few seconds email hunter will give you all the active id's on the
domain and the list where they've been used.
The
google chrome plugin which email hunter has released comes as a real
surprise. Every time you visit a website and email hunter plugin has
found some email address then plugin becomes Orange. Email
Hunter's Google Chrome
plugin becomes very useful
when journalist has their own website.
The
use of Mail-tester as
a powerful utility. Mail-tester is an online email testing tool which
helps us to identify whether a particular domain exists, email on
that server exists, is it configured to listen smtp requests etc.
Sometimes if mail-tester gives result as Server does not allow e-mail
address verification. Don't get disappointed, just send an email to
that address via dummy mail.
The
use of Reverse Domain Search
i.e. Domain Search via Who.is and Go daddy.
I
use this method when every other tricks have failed. So now I would
want to search the owner of the website which I know a journalist
owns.
When
you search for a website information on Who.is or Godaddy, they give
you important things:
A.
Registrant Name (Which might be Journlist's name)
B. Registrant Email (67-68% time Journalist's email)
C. Registrant Phone and Location etc.
The email address which you get is not always accurate on the Domain
search database and sometimes there is some weird pattern for example
whoisagent@gndjsnndwd.com which is utterly useless. When you get a
proper email via Domain search make sure you test it once.
The use of Rapportive. Rapportive is a plugin which can be
installed in google chrome and is directly integrated to your gmail
account. You need to signin and confirm in order to start using
Rapportive. It's completely free of cost. The most striking feature
of Rapportive is that when you enter an email address in the compose
section, to the right hand side it displays the linkedin/twitter
accounts related to that email address. And not only that it works
perfect with incoming E-mails too. Now wonder who has sent you an
email? No problem use Rapportive.
One another way to check the accounts related to specific E-mail
address is to search that email-address as a google search. This has
a least percentage to be successfull, but why not give it a try in
extreme cases?
Once you excel the above procedure then it will be max 5 mins job for
you to find anyone's email address. But there is one thing I would
like to press upon is that You've Got To Have An EYE!
Hope you've enjoyed it. If you have any questions then you can ask
them via comments. I'll definitely respond.
Thanks,
Harshit Garg
