Hiding your email addy from spambots

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Papers by Zoe Pern

Once in a while there comes a need for each of us to post our email address online.  It might be so we can enter a drawing,post it in a forum, or on our blog or website so people can contact us if they need to.  Most of us know that we don’t want to post the ACTUAL email address because we will start to get spam.  Did you know that there are spambots out there that crawl the web in search of email addresses?  Once you post your actual email address you will start receiving spam…unfortunately.

One way that people will post their email address (which I’m sure we have all seen) is to post it in code by using the words AT and DOT instead of the symbols.  Sometimes people will use (  ) as well.  This tip that I am going to share was shared with me a couple of years ago by Dianne Rigdon and it’s super easy too!

When I want to post my email online, I just go to THIS SITE and obfuscate my email, or in other words, make it so it works for people but not for the spambots.  Just enter your email addy in the box, click  on “Click to Obfuscate” and then copy the html into the comment portion of a blog, post in a forum, or the html portion of a blog post.  It will show up like this:
steph@thedailydigi.com

But only PEOPLE will be able to see it…NO BOTS!!

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13 Responses to “Hiding your email addy from spambots”

1. SharonS says:

   April 24, 2009 at 7:54 am

   Whew! I’m glad you’re back! Thanks for the great tip!
2. Pink Monkey says:

   April 24, 2009 at 9:16 am

   Oh, THAT’S why people use the words instead of symbols. I never knew that. Now I know and will do the same. Thanks for the tip.
3. Mellisa says:

   April 24, 2009 at 9:28 am

   thanks for the tip on that site! I always space mine out with extra characters, etc, but this is great!
   TFS!
4. HeatherB says:

   April 24, 2009 at 9:47 am

   Now that is something I needed to know about! What a great tip, thanks Steph!
5. Deca says:

   April 24, 2009 at 10:05 am

   It’s such a great tip. TFS!!!
6. BettyJoR says:

   April 24, 2009 at 12:53 pm

   Great tip!! Thank you so much!!!
7. Lor says:

   April 24, 2009 at 1:06 pm

   Great tip! Thanx!
8. Gail says:

   April 24, 2009 at 1:06 pm

   Thank you for the great tip!
9. Anna says:

   April 24, 2009 at 2:52 pm

   Thanks for sharing this great info!!!
10. michelle says:

    April 24, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Thanks for the info!! This post gets two thumbs up.
11. leslie says:

    April 25, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Well that’s just the coolest! Thanks for the tip!
12. rose says:

    April 27, 2009 at 1:48 am

    wow. what a great tip. thank you!
13. Suzanne says:

    May 1, 2009 at 10:13 am

    What a very useful tip! Thanks for sharing! Now, let’s try it here.