Protect your email from Spam Bots
Posted by Brian Duke on Tue, Apr 01, 2008 @ 10:52 AM
One of the easiest ways for your email to get snatched up by a SPAM bot is to have it on your website. Still, many businesses these days fall into the trap and then wonder why they are getting 15-20 SPAM emails a day.
Fortunately, there is a quick fix that will allow you to have your email on your website, but in a way that the SPAM bots cannot recognize. The way to do this is to create an image file of your email address. You can find an example of this in our all of our forms. SPAM bots are designed to skim through text and code to find email addresses, but they cannot understand an image as it is referenced in the code by it's path.
The only thing that is important to remember here though is while the image is not decipherable by the SPAM bot, it's alt tag may be. Don't go through the trouble of this method if you are just going to make the alt tag your email address. My suggesstion is make it something like "joesemail" or something like that. This way users who cannot view the image know what it is but the SPAM bots cannot pick up on it.