Protect Your Email Address on Web from Email Harvesters & Spam Bots
Why does new email address just created doesn’t receive spam emails? Because spammers or are still not aware of your newly created email address and therefore they just don’t have it. So best way to avoid spam is to make your email address a super secrete.
But your email doesn’t meant to be a super secrete. If no one know your email address, then how you’ll receive emails there?
Now, if you already have a website or blog, and your email id is published over there (or anywhere over internet), then you must be receiving lot of spams in your email box. It is so because, your email address is collected by email harvesters.
Harvesters are web bots which crawl the web looking for email addresses to use for email spam. They find them in the most unsuspecting places, including in website, blog or from other community sites & portals. They also hunt for email addresses over chain emails.
But if you can’t give your email id on your website, then how does your visitors can contact you? There are few methods through which you can protect your email from these harvesters, and yet provide your website or blog visitors opportunity to reach you.
One of such technique is to use java script protected email id, we call it unspmable email link, which protects your email id from spam bots at the same time reveal it to your visitors. So they can just click on it & send you an email.
<SCRIPT TYPE=”text/javascript”>
<!–
// protected email script by Joe Maller
// JavaScripts available at http://www.joemaller.com
// this script is free to use and distribute
// but please credit me and/or link to my site
emailE=(’name@’ + ‘domain.com’)
document.write(’<A href=”mailto:’ + emailE + ‘”>’ + emailE + ‘</a>’)
//–>
</script>
Instructions for use:
If you’ve already set up a mailto: link, you should have something that looks like this in your HTML code:
<a href=”mailto:name@domain.com”>name@domain.com</a>
For More information, please click here.
Simply replace that entire tag with the script above, and then change the variables in “emailE.” It won’t show up in Dreamweaver, but when you test it out on the server, the email address will be there… for human eyes only…
If its difficult for you, then you can also use this free online tool to create a small java script for you, you just need to paste it to the place you want to insert your email on your html document.
March 29th, 2009 at 5:37 am
Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
April 24th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
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