Marketing Cues - Anti-spam email address for your website

Anti-spam email address for your website

Are you afraid of putting your email address on your website for fear that spam robots will collect your address? Are you offering a web contact form in lieu of an email link just to preserve your inbox from being clogged?

Web contact forms don’t replace email links. Why? Because communicating through email is effortless, familiar and convenient. The forwarding address is pre-filled and there is space to accommodate any length of message and also freedom to give as much or as little personal information as the visitor (or customer) wishes to provide. Encourage people to contact you.

But how to prevent spam robots harvesting your email address?

Those email harvesters don’t read Javascripts. By inserting a snippet of Javascript, the address becomes invisible to them. I’m not a Javascript writer but since I’ve used a Javascript to hide my address, I still receive feedback and enquiries but the number of unsolicited messages from spammers has reduced considerably.

This is the example:

Any of the following Javascripts will camouflage this address. Follow these three steps:

Instructions

Substitute your username and domain name for mine using one of the below scripts.

Copy the script and paste it in your text editor e.g. Notepad (Microsoft Word is not a text editor).

Now, copy the script (from Notepad) and paste it into the BODY of your HTML document.

Script One

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE ="JavaScript">
document.write('<a href="mailto:hmartel' + '@' + 'marketingcues.com">' + 'hmartel' + '@' + 'marketingcues.com</a>')
</SCRIPT>

Script Two

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
username = 'hmartel';
domain = 'marketingcues.com';
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + username + '@' + domain + '\">');
document.write(username + '@' + domain + '</a>');
</SCRIPT>

After a few days, you’ll start enjoying the difference.

Henriette Martel is a website strategist, consultant and Director of the Australian Training Guide. She is also the author of 200 Marketing Ideas for Your Website. Receive a free ebook when you subscribe to WEBmarketingcues, a free and valuable newsletter with articles, reviews and resources to help you market your own website. http://www.marketingcues.com

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