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How does my Email address get onto a Spammers list?

Often, the culprit is an email spider that ignores robots.txt files. They crawl through message boards, Web sites, and any online forum that might contain email addresses. The spiders search the Web until they have extracted a certain number of email addresses. Then they triumphantly crawl back to their evil masters with a list of victims. Don't Be An Email Spider Victim Before you know it, your inbox is flooded with spam email and you're spending valuable time sorting out the junk mail from legitimate email. That's time you could be spending promoting your site or providing service to your real customers. Many people protect their personal email by maintaining at least two email addresses: one that only friends and family have and another email address used for online orders or message boards posts. Online services (like Yahoo Mail and Hotmail) that offer free email addresses make that easy to do. The email addresses on your Web site are more problematic. You can password-protect your site, but that option keeps out both human visitors (including directory editors) and all spiders (not just email spiders). The human editors at Web directories expect to see contact information on the site's home page. Other visitors expect it too. The trick is keeping the lines of communication open to human visitors, but closed to email spiders.

How can I trick Email spiders into thinking I don't have email addresses on my website?

Here are three reliable methods. Select the one that fits your level of Web and programming expertise.

1. Use Special HTML Characters

This is the easiest way to thwart the email spiders, but it's also the easiest method for the spiders to detect and compensate for: simply use the "@" character in place of the @ sign in your email addresses.

Put it in your code inside a link or just as a text email address:

Link: <a href="mailto:sales&#64;buzzzz.com">Email Us</a>

Text email: Email us at: sales&#64;buzzzz.com

Since the HTML code doesn't look like a proper email address, the email spider doesn't harvest it. But the browser understands the code and displays it on the page properly. Visitors will be able to send you mail from the linked address if they have their mail client configured to do so. Otherwise, they can cut and paste from your Web page into their mail client to email you.

2. Hide Email Addresses With JavaScript

The special HTML character alone may not do the trick though. Before long, email spiders may be configured to look for it and replace it with the @ symbol. Then you're back with a full inbox of unwanted mail. So consider using JavaScript to parse the email address components. Be sure to change the variable names to reflect your site and email address! Also, remember to keep the document.write statement on one line in your HTML code to avoid getting a JavaScript error message on your Web page. Place the script in the BODY section of your document.

Copy & Paste this code into your website email address (change names to suit)

3. Use A Comment Form With CGI Script

Installing a CGI script isn't difficult, but seems intimidating to many novice webmasters. If you can get over that fear though, a CGI form processing script is a foolproof way to ward off email spiders. It's also easier to maintain in the long run because you don't have to change a lot of JavaScript variable names when you need to update addresses. Note that we use one for newsletter comments. When a visitor clicks on the author's name at the beginning of the story, the link opens a new browser window with a comment form. This hides the email address from email spiders, but still allows visitors to send questions and comments.