Customer Street and UFindUs Web Design

Here at Customer Street we like to help our clients fight spam. Quite often though, you will have the nasty spam spiders crawling around your website searching for email addresses that it can harvest. Then, when it returns to it’s master, it will add all the harvested email addresses to the already, large collection before using them for both mail shots and selling to marketing companies.

These spam spiders are tiny pieces of sofware that can dig deep in to your website and HTML code, searching for standard formatted email addresses link (me@mydomain.com). You can minimize the risk by protecting yourself against the spam spiders.

Here are a few solutions

Using the HTML Symbols

To reduce the risk of these spiders getting hold of yor email address you need to try and fool them. The first way we will show you is to use the HTML symbol for the at symbol (@). This is @ So your email address link will look something like

<a href=”mailto:me@mydomain.com”>

Convert to its equivalent decimal entity

This is really confusing even to look at. You’re basically scrabbling your email address using computer code.

From : me@mydomain.com

To: &#109;&#101;&#064;&#109;&#121;&#100;&#111;&#109;
&#097;&#105;&#110;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;

Don’t worry, you don’t have to work out what it’s doing. You can auto encode your email address HERE.

Hide your email address with a PHP form

You can hide your email address within a PHP file which can not be viewed online. Even if someone knows the full URL of this file, it will just display a blank page in the browser.

You can generate PHP, ASP and Perl forms by using this contact form generator.

Don’t put email address on your website

This could however be bad for business. Your visitors expect to see certain things when they visit websites. If you do not have an email address, contact form etc. then they may not trust your website and end up going somewhere else !

At Customer Street we want to assist you so that you can benefit from your online presence.

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