>>Stop
the Spambots from Harvesting Your Email Address!<<
Scripts
& Methods to Avoid Spambots On Your Website Pages
By Susan, Editor
Copyright ©Vector Central Marketing
It
is an outrage how many methods have to be implemented in order
to avoid the silly and illogical practices of spammers! They mess
with your emails. They mess with your website. But they are a
fact in online business and we have to do our best to avoid them,
and continue the battle against them.
Several
weeks ago, we brought you a method that we thought of and tried,
which has had excellent results of decreasing spam coming from
the submission forms on our website (read
here). Today, we will focus on how to avoid the spamming robots
from harvesting your email addresses from your website.
There
are several methods that we have researched and we feel they will
greatly assist you in knowing how to avoid having your email address
harvested from your website.
Method
#1
--One
of my favorites.
--Best and Easiest for Your Visitors, Customers & Subscribers
This
method is the "Easiest method" for your subscribers,
customers, and visitors.
Use the following Javascript to disguise your email address on
your website.
PLEASE
NOTE: Before adding this script to your HTML page, copy and
paste it into your Text Editor (like Ultra Edit, Note Pad, Word
Pad) and then copy it from your Text Editor and paste it into
your HTML page. This will keep the script pure.
<script language="javascript">
<!--
var Domain = "your-domain-name.com"
var Mailme = "mail" + "to:" + "your-email-prefix@"
+ Domain
document.write("<form>");
document.write("<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Your
Message Goes Here\" ");
document.write("onclick=\"parent.location=Mailme\">
");
document.write("</form>");
// -->
</script>
The
parts in Bold Text are the parts that you change to your information.
Be careful to leave everything else without change.
The
beauty of this method is that it has the least drawbacks. Very
few people disable their javascript in their computer, and that
would be the only drawback -- but who disables javascript since
almost every website uses it?
To
see how it Works:
This
script is for your website, so if the above button does not show
in this email, please click
here to read this article and view the script button.
Also
see this method in effect on our Link Exchange page:
http://www.vectorcentral.com/linkexchange.html
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Method
#2
Mailto
Tags
Don't use "mailto:" in your HTML pages or your viewable
pages.
Most spambots are searching for "mailto:" tags to harvest
email addresses off of websites.
Also, change the font and the font size for the "@"
symbol. This will alter the html coding and ensure that your email
address will not be harvested.
Example: yourwebsite@yourwebsite.com
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Method
#3
Use
a Graphic
Make a graphic of your email address.
Drawback: the reader has to manually type in the address
"by sight." He/she won't even be able to copy and paste
since it's not clickable and you can not copy and paste a graphic.
You can add your email address in the ALT tag, but your visitor
still has the dilemma of having to 'look and remember' your address
to be able to add to their address book.
Drawback: some readers have graphics disabled, so they
can't view the graphic. You can put your email address in the
ALT tag, but I find this method to be totally Too Time consuming
and difficult for the website visitor/reader.
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Method
#4
You
can use:
@
in your html page for the "@" symbol.
Drawback: it is reported that some spamming software are
wise to this method.
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Method
#5
Text
Method:
You can instruct your website visitor how to copy and paste -
then change - then remove spaces...
vectorcentral [at]
vectorcentral.com
Be Sure to Replace [at] with: @
(make sure there are no spaces in the address.)
Drawback:
Too difficult for the website visitor, subscriber, or customer.
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Also
remember to never give your email address to an online directory
that will post it online. It can be harvested from there and from
any website where you enter your email address to be publicized.
Protect
Your Email Address and Your Website!
Our Thanks to the Following Websites where we have researched.
(found through Google)
http://www.bronze-age.com/nospam/
http://west-penwith.org.uk/misc/spam.htm
http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot/
