# How to clean up bounced contacts from the contact list?

Follow our step-by-step guide to master Mailmodo features. In email marketing, maintaining a clean and engaged contact list is vital for effective communication and campaign success This comprehensive tutorial provides detailed instructions for optimizing your email marketing strategy.

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In email marketing, maintaining a clean and engaged contact list is vital for effective communication and campaign success. One common challenge is managing bounced users, as keeping them in your list can impact deliverability and overall performance. 
 

 In this article, we will provide a step-by-step guide on how to efficiently clean up (aka remove) bounced contacts from your contact list in Mailmodo.
 

 Related Guide: [A Guide to Measuring and Improving Email Bounce Rate](https://www.mailmodo.com/guides/email-bounce-rate/)
 

 ## Step by step guide on how to remove your bounced contacts in Mailmodo 
 

 **Step 1**: Navigate to the contacts section and create a segment.
 

 ![](https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/RXy8FfsCQoqTl8ZAi3lK)
 

 **Step 2**: Choose Start from scratch and add a name for the segment.
 

 **Step 3**: Now, in the select contact section, click on the exclude contact and choose the following from the drop-down option:
 

 1. _Contacts belong to_ \-> `Unsubscribed from all email types or blocked`
 2. _but doesn't belong to_ \-> `Unsubscribed from all email types`
 3. _Choose the segment type_ \-> `Dynamic Segment`
 

 ![](https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/3Bel6EkATtavB2JDE9fy)
 

 **Step 4**: Go to the next step and add conditions. In the condition step, just **set Email Address to Exists**
 

 ![](https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/fdzjrmPyRcSvZWcfrfgP)
 

 **Step 5**: Once done, click on create segment. The created segment will contain all the blocked contacts. 
 

 **Step 6**: Now, click on the `...` menu and select Archive option to remove the contact from your system. 
 

  Related Guide: [How to archive contacts in Mailmodo?](https://support.mailmodo.com/articles/923295-how-to-archive-contacts-in-mailmodo)
 

 ![](https://cdn.filestackcontent.com/3ccL7TzrTPGh9soXq9hC)
 

 **Step 7**: That's it. It will take some time to complete the archiving process. Post completion, you will receive a success message in the [notification center](https://support.mailmodo.com/articles/399578-notification-center).

