How to Insert Spam-Resistant Emails into Your Web Pages

By Candice Pardue

Stop the email spammers

The no-spam email code

Ever wondered how so many spammers get your email address? Email spam is the number one plague of the Internet these days, and it's only going to get worse as more people catch on to the "wonderful" web.

The reason your email address seems so popular is NOT because an actual person came to your Web site and copied your email address manually. It's because advanced software has been developed in recent years which enables spammers to do their dirty work without making any effort!

This spam, or harvest, software releases spies (or spam bots) throughout the search engines that can capture millions of emails from the HTML code of innocent sites all over the Web - including yours and mine.

Spammers can literally obtain millions of email addresses within a matter of hours, then sell them, spam them, or both. Unfortunately, there's no way to prevent them from harvesting all of these emails. Even with new laws in place, the spam will still continue. Prosecution is very difficult in most cases because spammers do not play fair.

A Possible Solution?

We can take steps to combat spam at our own Web site and mailbox. One way to stay a step ahead of spammers is to use unique ways of revealing your email address to visitors.

A javascript code has been created to help hide your email address in HTML while maintaining a "normal" appearance and functionality at your Web site. I'll show you how to do this in a moment. No special skills are required if you already have a site up and running.

I realize there have been other ways to prevent spam, such as including a special phrase in the actual email address that the sender would have to remove manually. This method does help prevent spam, but please beware of the pitfalls...

An example of this method is below:

The email on the web page and in the sender's email client might look something like this:

no_spam_candice@onlinesuccesstips.com

The sender would need to remove the no_spam_ portion of this email in order to send the email successfully. < style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">The problem with this method is that it could hinder you from receiving your email and cause you to lose sales if you're operating an online business. Your visitors might or might not understand how email works (or how an email address should look.)

If the visitor makes an attempt to email you, and the attempt fails, you will probably lose all credibility with that visitor. So, beware of these methods even though they will prevent some spam.

The method I'd like to discuss uses a simple javascript code to disguise your email address. The spam bots will not be able to decipher the email, but your email will appear normal on your website and maintain it's normal functionality.

Using this method, no code will show in the email to your visitors.

To grab the javascript code and take the quick 5-step tutorial, go to the link below:

No Spam Sample Page

Now, get rid of those pesty spammers forever!!

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Article written by Candice Pardue, Internet content writing company and owner of Online Success for Internet Business. Go here to learn web design from start to finish. This one's for beginners...

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