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E-book InformationHow To Avoid Spam Robots
by:
Jim Edwards
© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
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Despite the fact that Federal legislation (the CANSPAM act) ready-made it illegal, harvest email addresses from the web exploitation machine-controlled robots remains alive and well.
Spammers who need fresh email addresses release software system spider programs that comb the Computer network and suck email addresses off Web pages, guest books, and anyplace
else you mightiness post your email address.
Once they get your email address, spammers wish trade it about like 5th graders with a new pack of Pokemon cards at recess and you can expect the avalanche of email to begin flooding your inbox.
In order to combat this still rampant practice of stealing email addresses from websites and causing folk email they don't want, the following tips should help protect you.
** Break It Up **
Obviously the better way to avoid acquiring picked up by an email harvester is not to post your email anyplace
on anyone's website (including your own).
If the only way person can get your email is if you give it to them, that creates a similar situation to operational with an unlisted phone number.
If telemarketers can't get your phone number, they can't call.
If you must post your email address, post it in a way that a automaton won't recognize it as an email address. Instead of posting YOURNAME@YOURDOMAIN.COM, you can put YOURNAME (AT) YOURDOMAIN.COM and then, in parenthesis, put (replace AT with @ to email me).
Though it seems like an extra step for legitimate email, you'll find it a really effective technique.
** Use An Pictures **
Currently, online spiders (ANY spider, including search engines) cannot see text that appears in a graphic or picture. If you must display an email address on a page, then do it by typewriting your email address into your favorite graphics program and saving the pictures as a .gif or .jpg. Then post the pictures onto your web page so folk can see the email, but spiders cannot. This too creates an extra step for folk because they must type in your email address, but it's an effective resolution if you must display an email address on your own website.
** Use An Email Form **
Another way to cut down on spam originating from your own website is just not to display an email at all.
Instead, allow customers and prospects to contact you through a form wherever
they fill in fields, click a button, and your website emails you their message.
A note of caution: do sure the form script you use does not support your email address visible in the form code.
If the form code contains the email address, spam robots can find it even as although you don't see it on the page.
** Do It Hard To Guess **
Sometimes you'll get unsought email because a sender guessed your email address.
It's not a far stretch to imagine that person probably has the email Jim@yourdomain.com, so spammers wish do a "dictionary" attack on common usernames.
One way to defeat this is to place a "dot" (.) in your email address, such as Jim.Edwards@yourdomain.com. The dot does it virtually impossible for spammers to guess your email address.
Just about the author:
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