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FilthyRaider
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I set up a small website for my business, incorporated Google Checkout buttons and made a sale within ten minutes! Hey, all good fun, and more funny as the guy lived about three miles away.
Anyway, over the last few days I have been hit by a fair few German Spam emails to the email addresses I had (stupidly) put on the pages - just for customers to use to ask questions or submit orders via other means.
I've not had the site or emails long enough to worry too much, so I deleted the email addresses and have created new ones. Positively I am thinking 'at least the website is working or I wouldn't have been hit!'
Long story short (too late!): How can I keep an email address available for people to use to contact me WITHOUT getting hit by these rotton Spam Bots?
I use 1and1 and I have tried to see if there is a way of creating a CONTACT ME button but to now avail. Can anyone very kindly help? Many thanks.
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I loved my grandmother very much.......and she fetched a good price on eBay.
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evilmonkeyzz
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A simple, but affective way of avoiding getting hit by the automatic ones is to post your address not in full ie:
Username(at)Emailprovider(dot)com - This avoids the robots. This has always worked for me, although there are cleaner methods, but I'm not sure about them.
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FilthyRaider
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That is the one I remember reading about in WU a good while back, so thanks for confirming that.
I wondered if anyone had a bit of 'standard' HTML code that you could just stick your email address into so that it created a button visitors can click but the bots can't 'see'.
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I loved my grandmother very much.......and she fetched a good price on eBay.
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TheFatControlleR
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Not HTML, but Javascript. This will appear wherever you place it on the page, and show whatever you place in the variable (email address, 'contact us', etc. as a clickable link), but should not be 'visible' to bot...
Code:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- Begin
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:myname'+ '@' + 'email-domain.com\">');
document.write('Link Text to Appear on Web Page</a>');
// End -->
</script>
The parameters you need to change are;
myname
email-domain.com
Link Text to Appear on Web Page
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'Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.' - Hunter S Thompson (1937-2005)
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FilthyRaider
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That's great, thank you. Sounding like a novice, I'm afraid, but what is the Link Text To Appear On WebPage bit? I wasn't too sure what to put there. Not sure if the 1and1 package I have will let me enter it at the moment.
I also found this interesting link:
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/email/
You can create email links that way in HTML although they are in text form rather than a nice button.
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I loved my grandmother very much.......and she fetched a good price on eBay.
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TheFatControlleR
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The 'Link Text to Appear on Web Page' is what actually shows on the page, the clickable link bit that your site visitors see; 'Contact Us', Email Us', etc.
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'Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.' - Hunter S Thompson (1937-2005)
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dangermouse75
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Quote:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- Begin
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:myname'+ '@' + 'email-domain.com\">');
document.write('Link Text to Appear on Web Page</a>');
// End -->
</script>
Thanks for this. How could I get the "Link Text to Appear" as font size 10pt?
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Zippy_Brown
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Quote:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- Begin
document.write('<a href=\"mailto:myname'+ '@' + 'email-domain.com\">');
document.write('<span style=\"font-size:10px\">Link Text to Appear on Web Page</span></a>');
// End -->
</script>
You can change the 10px to whatever size you wish.
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dangermouse75
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Just the job. Thanks!
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smn2
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Hi
I've used similar JavaScript in the past as well
as mailto: encoders. Now I use a script called
Willmaster Spambot Buster (free)
- http://www.willmaster.com/master/spambotbuster/
Basically, it's Perl/CGI script that allows you
to create an email link that can't be harvested,
as it's not stored on the site, but in a data
file known by the script.
Sounds more complicated than it really is. I explain
how it works, and how the other ways of spam-avoidance
work (including the javascript solution) in this article
- http://www.anyonecansellonline.com/stop-spam.shtml
I still get spam, but much, much less than most people.
I NEVER put mailto: links on my site, and I haven't done
so for several years.
Hope that helps,
Steve
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