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Use this JavaScript to Hide Your eMail from Spambots
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Ed Zivkovic July 13, 2006
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How to Hide Your eMail Address from Spambots
Ever wonder why so many webmasters refuse to insert their email address into the body of their webpages?
The reason is to protect their eMail address from email harvesting
robots. These robots crawl the Internet searching for email addresses
in order to build a spam list.
These spambots ignore the robots.txt file. The robots.txt file is used
to instruct legitimate web crawling robots about where they can and
cannot go on your site. The file is observed by honest search engine
robots but not by spambots.
Spambots will also ignore any instructions within the meta tags of your
HTML. This means that they just go around doing what they want
violating your rights as a webmaster. Spambots are boundary violators
just like the spammers who continue to do what they do. That is, send
spam.
Many webmasters today have decided to use a contact form instead in an
attempt to throw the spambots off. This has served a dual purpose for
Internet marketers.
1. To keep the eMail address safe from spambots.
2. Another webpage to use for the purpose of channeling Page Rank (PR).
The contact form works fine, but just in case you find the need to add
your eMail address into your webpages, you can use some JavaScript to
hide the eMail from the spambots.
Below you will discover two Free JavaScript resources. These
JavaScripts are easy to use if you have access to the HTML of your
webpages. They can be added to any webpage quickly and easily.
The Unspamable eMail Link JavaScript
If you would like to display your eMail link to humans but hide it from
spambots, you can use this Free cut-and-paste Unspamable email link
JavaScript from:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/script/script2/unspam.shtml
How to Edit the JavaScript
Select the JavaScript from the textarea then copy and paste it into
your HTML document. For help with copy and paste, visit:
http://webhome.idirect.com/~bowers/cutpaste/htm/index2.htm
You will notice two variables within the script:
var name = "protected";
var domain = "cdrsoft.com";
To insert the email address [email protected], simply replace
the word "protected" with the word "webmaster" and replace the domain
"cdrsoft.com" with "yourdomain.com". That's it.
Automatic Encoding Tool
This tool is easy to use. Just insert the email address you wish to
protect and click the button called "Encode mail links":
http://www.bronze-age.com/nospam/encode.html
Also, you will need to download a small file called "email.js" and
upload it to your website. Full details about this system are available
at: http://www.bronze-age.com/nospam/index.html.
Advantages and Disadvantages
JavaScript - Adding an email address builds trust with your visitors
because when they click your email link, their mail browser opens and
they know that when when they send that eMail, it is going directly to
you.
Contact Form - With a contact form, you are sending valuable Page Rank
to yet another page on your site. From that page, you can send more
Page Rank to still other pages.
Note to Content Management Software Developers
Some article submission services publish authors articles along with
the email address of the author. In this day and age, this is
unacceptable. I would call this version "the barely ready beta
version". In other words, it is ready for BETA release after this
problem is fixed.
If you develop Article Publishing software, and the published articles
include the authors eMail address, you are on a losing streak. I have
spoken to owners of this type of software and they are on the lookout
for something better.
This applies to other types of software scripts which publish HTML with
an eMail address. Not everybody wants to open up free eMail dumping
accounts.
Source: ArticleTrader.com
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