One of the biggest productivity killers is email Spam. It's gotten to the point where a lot of sites just don't list their emails address anymore for people to contact them for more information.
If you're doing this, you're cutting off potential business. There are alternatives to beat the Spammers, and still make it so people can reach you.
One option is to provide a form for folks to fill out. In this case, your email is not present for the Spambots to grab it. The problem with this approach is that some people don't want to be bothered with a form, and you need some technical know how to get one up there.
Another thing you can do to try and thrwart the Spambots is to encrypt your email address in a JavaScript. This isn't guaranteed to stop all of the Spam for your email address, but I do it, and it's reduced the Spam I receive considerably.
All you have to do is copy the JavaScript below and paste it to your site. Then, edit two parts of it to insert your email address.
- Change YOUR-USER-NAME to the part of your email address that comes before the @ symbol.
- Change YOUR-EMAIL-DOMAIN to the part of your email address that comes after the @ symbol.
Here is how it looks to your site visitors:
Be sure to test the code by clicking it. It should launch your email client. Then, send a test email to yourself to see that it was all done correctly.
