{"id":7703,"date":"2026-02-03T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2026-10-15T02:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T02:01:42","slug":"hostinger-reach-what-is-the-spam-checker-tool-and-how-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/hostinger-reach-what-is-the-spam-checker-tool-and-how-to-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Reach: What is the Spam Checker tool and how to use it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Spam Checker tool in <a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-hostinger-reach\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/email-marketing\">Hostinger Reach<\/a> uses AI to rate your email template across five areas: overall quality, spam risk, grammar, links and buttons, and accessibility and readability. Spam Checker suggests fixes before you send, and applying them with AI takes 1 AI credit per request. Run Spam Checker anytime while creating or editing an email template.<\/span><\/p><h2 id=\"h-where-to-find-spam-checker\"><b>Where to find Spam Checker<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-open-your-reach-dashboard\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/11534487-hostinger-reach-how-to-sign-up-and-access-the-dashboard\/\">Open your Reach dashboard<\/a> and go to <strong>Templates<\/strong>. While editing or creating an email template, look at the top area of the page and click the Spam Checker button.<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-42.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1875\" height=\"863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-42.png 1875w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-42-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-42-1024x471.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-42-768x353.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-42-1536x707.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1875px) 100vw, 1875px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Once clicked, AI will analyze your email template.<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20488\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-43.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"689\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-43.png 689w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-43-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The first scan usually takes around <\/span><b>15 seconds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to generate the initial results.<\/span><\/div><h2 id=\"h-what-spam-checker-evaluates\"><b>What Spam Checker evaluates<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the scan, you&rsquo;ll see results for several key areas:<\/span><\/p><h3><b>Overall Quality<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A general quality score based on:<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Email design<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Content quality<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Functionality<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">User experience<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><h3><b>Spam Risk<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A rating based on:<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deliverability-related factors<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Content quality and potential spam signals<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><h3><b>Grammar Quality<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Checks:<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spelling<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grammar<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Language quality<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><h3><b>Link &amp; Button Analysis<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Evaluates:<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">URL validity<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CTA (call-to-action) clarity<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Placement of buttons and links<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quantity of links<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><h3><b>Accessibility &amp; Readability<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Checks for:<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Color contrast<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Font sizes<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visual hierarchy<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sentence structure<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><h2 id=\"h-understanding-the-statuses\"><b>Understanding the Statuses<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each category receives a status, such as:<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Good to go<\/b><b><br>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Needs improvement<\/b><b><br>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Needs major work<\/b><b><br>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your template shows <\/span><b>Good to go<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> across all areas, it means your email meets quality best practices and is ready for sending with strong engagement potential.<\/span><\/p><h2 id=\"h-what-spam-checker-does-not-check\"><b>What Spam Checker does n<\/b><b><i>ot<\/i><\/b><b> check<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spam Checker focuses on your <\/span><b>current template quality<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but it does <\/span><b>not<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> evaluate:<\/span><\/p><ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your domain status or domain validity<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sender reputation based on previous campaigns<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Full inbox placement likelihood<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even if your template is &ldquo;Good to go,&rdquo; Spam Checker <\/span><b>cannot guarantee 100% inbox placement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, because deliverability depends on multiple factors beyond the email content itself.<\/span><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more details, refer to the deliverability-related <\/span><a data-click-id=\"hgr-post-content-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/email-deliverability-for-new-senders-build-your-domain-reputation-with-hostinger-reach-beginner-guide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p><h2 id=\"h-how-to-fix-issues-found-by-spam-checker\"><b>How to fix issues found by Spam Checker<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If any category shows <\/span><b>Needs improvement<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or <\/span><b>Needs major work<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Spam Checker will provide improvement suggestions.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You have three ways to handle them:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/p><h3><b>Option 1 &ndash; Apply all suggestions (Recommended)<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By default, all suggestions are <\/span><b>pre-selected<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click <\/span><b>Apply all fixes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;to automatically fix everything using AI.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20489\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-44.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-44.png 685w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-44-300x283.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is a one-click interaction, and results in automatically sending a message to AI chat.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It takes 1 credit and AI applies all suggested improvements automatically.<\/span><\/p><h3><b>Option 2 &ndash; Apply selected suggestions<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you don&rsquo;t want to follow every suggestion:<\/span><\/p><ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Untick the checkbox for the suggestions you don&rsquo;t want<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click <\/span><b>Fix selected<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-44_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-44_1.png 679w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/10\/2026-10-14_13-44_1-300x290.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><br>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is a one-click interaction, and results in automatically sending a message to AI chat.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It takes 1 credit and AI applies only selected suggestions automatically.<\/span><\/p><h3><b>Option 3 &ndash; Fix issues manually<\/b><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can also fix issues yourself using <\/span><b>Edit Mode.<\/b><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is useful if you want full control over your wording, layout, or design, although it may be more time consuming.<\/span><\/p><h2 id=\"h-re-checking-your-template\"><b>Re-checking your template<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After applying fixes (automatically or manually), click <\/span><b>Spam Checker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> again to re-run the scan.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You should see improved scores and ideally <\/span><b>Good to go<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> statuses across all categories.<\/span><\/p><h2 id=\"h-important-note-about-edit-mode\"><b>Important note about Edit Mode<\/b><\/h2><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are in <\/span><b>Edit Mode<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, you can still run Spam Checker and view results.<\/span><\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Applying AI fixes automatically (Apply All Suggestions \/ Apply Selected) is not available in Edit Mode.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To apply AI suggestions:<\/span><\/p><ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Switch back to <\/span><b>AI chat mode<\/b><b><br>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Click <\/span><b>Spam Checker<\/b><b><br>\n<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apply suggestions there<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This ensures your manual changes are fully saved and prevents unsaved edits from being overridden.<\/span><\/p><p>Once every category shows Good to go, your Hostinger Reach email template meets quality best practices and is ready to send.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use the Hostinger Reach Spam Checker to rate your email template\u2019s spam risk, grammar, links, and accessibility, and apply AI fixes in one click.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hostinger-reach"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/hostinger-reach-what-is-the-spam-checker-tool-and-how-to-use-it\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20491,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/20491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}