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Last Login: 5/22/2008 2:08:53 PM
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| I have recently read that if you include your email address either directly on the page or as a link, you will promote an incredible amount of unwanted spam. Is there a way to work around this problem & still have your viewers able to contact you?
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Supreme Being
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Last Login: 10/24/2008 2:27:36 PM
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Yes that is a possibility, but it isn't a guarantee either. I know I have one email address that has been posted on a site for years that gets almost zero spam. However, I have another email for a client site, and that one does get a pretty hefty amount of spam.
You may have seen people write an email one of these two ways online;
you @ yoursite.com
you at yoursite.com
Those were the two big clever tricks to avoid the spam crawlers, however it is such a well known trick that I would have to personally believe the crawlers have adjusted for it by this point, but I don't know that for sure.
Your best option may be to make an image out of the email address, but even then if you put a mailto link on that image, the crawler can find that in the code. I remember seeing a tutorial awhile ago about some php code I believe for hiding your email address from spiders, but I can't seem to remember where now and I didn't seem to bookmark it. So there are other answers out there.
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My wife has given birth to our twins, so I'm still going to be spotty around here. It never seems to correct itself does it? I'm sorry, I'm trying.
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Supreme Being
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| Hi I am going to throw in my 2 cents worth here... What is more difficult, deleting a Spam email or losing a customer who really is not intereted in copy/pasting and email address. I often have customers ask me to do something like this and my advice is always the same, its only spam, i know its annoying, however its only a delete button away, a lot easier then making a possible user not email you because all these measures have been taken to make email clicks away. Just food for thought... Here is something i found online a short while back which i thought was neat...the email is written backwards and CSS places the text the correct way in the browser. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Email</title>
<style type="text/css">
.backwards {unicode-bidi:bidi-override; direction: rtl; color:#c00;}
h2#email {color:#000; text-decoration:none; border:0; font-size:2em; font-weight:bold;}
</style>
</head>
<body> <h2 id="email">Why not email me at <span class="backwards">moc.etisruoy@eman</span></h2> </body>
</html>
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Supreme Being
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Nifty trick there mamba. I suppose that destroys a mailto link though.
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My wife has given birth to our twins, so I'm still going to be spotty around here. It never seems to correct itself does it? I'm sorry, I'm trying.
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Junior Member
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This is quite a big problem! The email I give out can generate up to 300 spam messages a day! As far as I see it (apart from the solutions above) include:
1. Putting in a normal mailto link on your site and making sure you have really good spam filtering for your email.
2. Creating a contact form. I know it's quite possible to do this using EW although it's quite a lot more difficult than just doing the mailto link. People are quite familiar with using contact forms to get in touch through a website though so it's definitely a viable solution.
Hope this helps.
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