How do I reduce spam email from my website?

[Guest]

It is my opinion that due to my many email hyperlinlks on my website that I
get an above average amount of spam email. I would like to keep the
hyperlinkls on my site but add some sort of layer of protection that will
reduce this spam. Please advise? Thanks in advance!

 

[Charles W Davis]

Chuckb74,

Once the web crawlers have found your email addresses, the volume of spam
will increase even if you were to remove them. You should check your host
company instructions for a server side form setup where the site visitors
fill out a form and you will receive an email message. If you use a standard
FP form, the web crawlers will still find the e-mail address.

 

[Andrew Murray]

www.Jimcosoftware.com has a "spam spoiler" pluggin that may help reduce the
spam received - but not from those existing spammers, only new spammers.
Works well enough if you have javascript enabled.

The other way is to include a contact form that uses a server side script to
send the email rather than using the mailto tag.

Your host may supply such a script as part of your hosting - you could check
with them. If they use "CPanel" hosting control panel, this usually comes
(or may come) with a range of web utilities including email-scripts.
(Depends on your host and what they might provide).

My host uses CPanel and it has among other things, shopping carts,
discussion boards, form-to-email scripts etc all ready to install and run.