Re: Contact Info Best practices
"Scott Allen" <scott_at_thevirtualhandshake.com> wrote:
>> A very simple way to put up a "live" email address on a webpage and
>> make it spam proof is to use Hexadecimal values for the e-mail address
>> in the code.
>
>And the spambots can now read those. Think about it -- it's
>programmatically trivial. Certainly it will be a smaller portion of the
>spam spiders that can read it, but it only takes one.
I can report from experience over the past 8+ years, since first
implementing this coding trick, that it does work reliably.
Not ONE of my client sites that was originally launched as a virgin
domain, receives spam in any measurable quantity.
Yet these sites have open-published email addresses on the contact
pages, footers, etc.
The trick is to replace one or several characters in the e-mail string
with the unicode equivalents. The web page and email address will render
properly to human viewers, but spiders will not see a recognizable
e-mail string. For example:
contact_at_domain.com
recodes as:
contact@domain.com
and
mailto:contact_at_domain.com
recodes as:
mailto:contact@domain.com
Spam-proofed web site code is a compelling sales feature also! E-mail me
if you want to see an example site.
- William Stratas
Founder & President
PLANETCAST
Toronto, Canada
www.planetcast.com
Received on Wed Aug 24 2005 - 18:29:06 CDT
