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willg

50k pageviews a month will not draw too much attention unless you are in a specific niche and someone notices you.

You can always throw up some google ads in the meantime. If you have good cpm/ctr numbers from google it will help.

I do not think that there is "one way" to fix this (if there were, then it would be easy for spammers to go straight to inboxes)

Reverse DNS (ip mail domain)

SPF Record

Sender ID

3rd party verification (goodmail systems is one example linked from aol's spam abuse) - they are $400. 80k sounds like a little bit too much

Apply to be "whitelisted" at each specific provider (http://help.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/mail/cgi_bulkmail is yahoos, aol has one)

Switch MTAs (postfix, sendmail, qmail) - try alternating

Make sure your headers make sense and are valid (reply-to,return-path, from, message-id, etc)

Finally, send email people actually want. It seems that the systems are somewhat automated (aol is for sure) to reject mail if a certain % of users flag it as spam.