How to prevent spam bots from stealing email addresses from your web site.

Spammers use the spambots, automated programs, which visit the websites and copy the email addresses present on the pages. These emails are then used for spam. Try the following methods to minimize this stealing.

If you are using the email address in you FORM which is sent to your email address. Then use the server side script like PHP to send you the forms, instead of using FORM method. As PHP is server side script, it cannot be accessed by bots.

Spambots cannot read the images. Write you email address in the Photoshop and save it as jpeg or gif. Now add this image where you want to write your email address. This format will not be copy-able by the bots.

Usually bots search for “@” sign on a webpage to find some email address. So, use the word “(at)” instead of “@” in your email address. Now your email will look like “myemail(at)yahoo.com”. This technique may defeat the spambots.Another way is that don’t write your email address in your HTML code. Instead create a link or button that should say “Click to see the email address”. When the user will click this link or button a popup window or alert may be displayed showing your email address. JavaScript can be used for this purpose.

There are many other methods but above mentioned are easy and simple to implement.

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