Do you get spam? And usually it's
addressed to sales or info@yourdomain.
There are a number of ways that the spammers obtain e mail addresses, and one
of them is from your own website.
Spammers use software to get these e mail addresses, from your website, where
you have your contact information.
To prevent some of the unsolicited e mails, which are derived from spam robots
from "scrapping" for e mails, known as "e mail harvesting". These robots "crawl"the
web looking for code that has typically "@" signs or "mailto".
So part of the solution to prevent this is to disguise these elements to the
robots. So talk to your web site designers, who should know, or if you do it
yourself, read on.
Have a look a "covering" up the e mail to robots. This can be done in a number
of ways, by removing the "@" or the "mailto" so that a person will know to add
these symbols, or place the e mail address within an image, which the robots
can not read.
Another way of "address munging" or e mail obfuscating, as it is called is to
use some software to write the e mail address using alternative characters.
If you internet search e mail obfuscator you will find plenty of alternatives.
Run your selected program and copy and paste the result these into your website,
and replace the e mail address.
Result, a lot less spam.
Alternatively contact us, and we can discuss how we assist you in implementing
your e mail marketing.
The Business Marketing Company Ltd Tel: 01296 715288
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