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Hiding your email address from the spammers while still
allowing visitors to your site to use it to contact you
is not an easy task. The spammers use automated search
programs (sometimes called spam spiders) to search the
internet looking for email addresses that they can send
their spam to. These programs are becoming more
sophisticated as time goes on at identifying email
address links that you have tried to conceal from them.
The following form allows you to create two different
versions of your email address link that are obscured
in the hope that the spam spiders wont recognize them
as email links.
The simpler option is just an obscured version of the
corresponding HTML using ampersand code equivalents to
some of the link. A couple of the letters are not
converted in the hope that those spam spiders that test
for this form of concealment will expect all of the
letters to be similarly concealed.
The second option creates a Javascript that creates the
link and your visitors must therefore have Javascript
enabled to use the email link. In this instance the
obscured HTML is used as the source for a second layer
applied in Javascript in the hope that the spam spiders
that can handle the one type of obscuring cannot handle
the other (or at least not both together).
To use this form type the name that is to appear on
your page as the link, the email address that you want
to link it to, and select which version you want to
convert it to. Select 'Conceal Email' and the
email link code will be generated and obscured. You
then simply copy the generated code and paste it into
your web page where you want the link to appear.
If you are concerned that the spam spiders may be able
to decode even these versions of the email address link
then I suggest that you use the HTML Encryptor to encrypt your email
links rather than just obscuring them. The difference
between obscuring and encrypting your link is that the
encrypted version needs a decryptor script attached to
the page to convert the encrypted source into something
that the web browser can read while the obscured
version is directly readable by the browser.
The other (even more secure) alternative is to use a
form to generate the email and have the address added
server side when the email is sent. This has the
advantage that your visitors don't need to have an
accessible email program in order to create the email
but has the disadvantage that they don't get the
opportunity to save a copy of the email on their own
computer.
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