24/09: Protect Email Addresses On Your Site

Although I've been blogging for several years, I'm not technically expert by any stretch of the imagination.  Fortunately for people like me, there are a lot of helpful bloggers out there who willingly share their knowledge with others. As a blogger you will constantly discover things that you could be doing better, whether it's design, SEO, monetization or a whole host of other things. Yes, there is always something new to learn, to try to come to terms with and blogs are often the best way to discover new things.

I was going to post about this subject recently, but, being lazy, when I discovered someone else had done it already, I considered it the ideal opportunity to give his article and his blog a nice plug instead.

Because I don't use Wordpress for this blog, it's often not as easy to find simple solutions for some problems as it can be in the huge Wordpress community. I do run a variety of plugins, one of which is called AntiSpamMail, (the author's website has gone AWOL so no link) and is designed to protect email addresses on this site from email harvesting robots. It allows email addresses to be visible and clickable by human visitors but fools the bots by scrambling them. Because of this plugin I've never needed to look for any other way to protect my own or my visitors' information but this is probably not the case for many.

So, if you would like to take better care of email addresses posted on your site I recommend a visit to the recent excellent post Prevent Spam Bots From Email Address Harvesting at Webgyver's blog. Not only will this give you details of a range of options available to you, but, if the technical side of maintaining a blog is not your forte, it's a recommended subscription - a place where you can learn a great deal. For more on beating spam and anti spam tools you can find some of the more popular solutions here.

TCH

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