EMAIL VALIDATION INTEGRATION FOR GHOST

Prerequisites

You must have an active Ghost account. If you do not have an account, you can create one at https://ghost.org/

First, you will need to add a new custom integration.

Your 'Admin API Key' and 'API URL' will be available here.

Step 1:

Go to https://www.zerobounce.net/members/signin and sign in with your ZeroBounce account. Find the 'Integrations' tab on the left side menu to select the Ghost integration.

Step 2:

The popup will ask for your API Key and the URL you have defined.

API Key pop-up modal

Step 3:

In order to validate a list you first have to select it from the list and then press the Validate button.

After successful integration, you will be able to view your lists in your ZeroBounce Dashboard.

Validation Pop-up

On validate you will be presented with a popup with two options that can assist your validation process:

• Scoring - an optional service that helps identify catch-all addresses that are likely to be valid by detecting recent email activity.
• ZeroBounce Activity Data - uses interaction data to identify emails that have been opened, clicked, forwarded, or unsubscribed. The matching process is performed in-house through ZeroBounce's infrastructure, and your data is not transferred or shared with any third parties.

Step 4:

You will be taken to the Email Validation Results page which will show in queue the list you selected.

Email Validation results page

Step 5:

Once your list has completed processing you should receive an email notification and you will see that the Download button will appear.

Status: Completed

Step 6:

When you export your contacts, you'll find the following tags included in the exported file:

• ZB_Status
• ZB_SubStatus
• ZB_Validation_Timestamp
• ZB_Score
• ZB_Scoring_Timestamp
• ZB_Last_Known_Activity

The following tags will be automatically created in your integration with the first automatically validation/scoring results export.

These tags are essential for maintaining up-to-date and accurate contact information, allowing for better management and engagement with your contacts.

Step 7:

Results Mapping simplifies data management by allowing you to customize the names of validation or scoring result fields/tags when exporting to integrations, ensuring consistency.

Results Mapping window

Auto-validation

With this feature, you’re able to validate any new contact added to your integration automatically. To do so, you must establish an integration with one of the compatible platforms. After doing this, select Integrations from the menu and select your integration. Once you’re there, go to the Real-Time Validation section, where you can toggle auto-validation ON.

With auto-validation enabled, ZeroBounce will validate your new contacts automatically once added to your integration, ensuring they are valid and deliverable.

Ghost does not support automatic validation for bulk contact imports. You'll need to add single contacts in order to use the auto validation feature.

Auto-Scoring of Catch-All Emails

When this feature is enabled, catch-all emails are automatically scored each time a validation action is performed. This process consumes 1 credit per email. Please note that auto-scoring does not apply to emails added through auto-validation.