Hiding mailto links from spiders

Posted by Nicholas Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:30:17 GMT

More often than not I see sites that have a mailto link with an exposed email. This is setting yourself up to have your email harvested.

A quick and easy trick that you can use to hide emails from spiders is to replace the letters with html characters....


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Just say no to spam

Posted by Nicholas Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:38:00 GMT

Today I got extremely sick of coming on to see many hundreds of emails in my inbox from spam bots. I know a few posts ago I mentioned that I would be looking out for a solution, and I did. Unfortunately I have the attention span of a 3 year old and I forgot what I was doing fairly quick.

Today I was doing my normal blog run and I stopped by the site of a friend and co worker Douglas F Shearer when I happened across this post on his blog. Toward the end of the post he makes a short mention about how he’s now using something called Akismet as a potential guard against spam....


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