How to Hide Your Email Address from Spammers

Last updated on October 17th, 2012How to, Websites1 comment

An essential part of your web content is to ensure that your contact details are easily accessible to visitors to your website.  In fact, it’s required by law if you’re a limited company.  This obviously not only helps people to contact you if they want to buy your products or services, but it also promotes you as a credible business.  However, you need to ensure that you add your email address properly because if you don’t, you may end up getting inundated with spam!

If you put your email address on your website then it will automatically be added as a link.  This is not a good thing to do as it will be picked up by spam bots.  What are they?  Well, they crawl through the web and harvest any email address links they find which are then used to send out junk emails.

So here are 5 ways to hide your email address from spammers when you want to add it to your website:

Spell out your email address: “valerie (at) smartva (dot) co (dot) uk”.

Hide the email address in an image, by either creating an image yourself using software such as Photoshop, or using applications such as emailcover.com:
or Safe Mail: .

Hide it using an application such as scr.im which turns your email address into a safe and short URL – when people click on it they will have to answer a question before being given access to your email address.

Use a contact form to send enquiries direct to your email.

By doing any of the above, you will save yourself a lot of hassle.  In fact, someone put my email address as a link on a website and I got inundated with spam.  It got so bad that I had to go through and delete a good third of my inbox before I got to the messages that I wanted to read.  Luckily someone suggested I use a spam filter which removes the junk emails before they hit your inbox.  This has saved me so much time and hassle that I can certainly recommend anyone who’s being plagued by junk emails to invest in a spam filter.

So now you know how to hide your email address from spammers, you can finally say goodbye to spam!

Valerie Eaton

Valerie Eaton provides virtual PA and online marketing services to self-employed professionals who are feeling overwhelmed by their workload and want more time to focus on growing their business.

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