Protect Your Email from SPAM Bots

One of the easiest ways for your email to get snatched up by a SPAM bot is to have it on your website. Still, many businesses these days fall into the trap and then wonder why they are getting 15-20 SPAM emails a day. Fortunately, there is a quick fix that will allow you to have your email on your website, but in a way that the SPAM bots cannot recognize.

The way to do this is to create an image file of your email address. SPAM bots are designed to skim through text and code to find email addresses, but they cannot understand an image as it is referenced in the code by it\'s path. The only thing that is important to remember though is while the image is not decipherable by the SPAM bot, it\'s alt tag may be. For those that are not familiar with the alt tag, it is what will show up if the image does not load so the user still has a description of the image. Please don\'t take the time to implement this method if you are just going to make the alt tag your email address. My suggestion is make it something like \"joesemail\" or something like that. This way users who cannot view the image know what it is but the SPAM bots cannot pick up on it.

Using methods such as these are simple yet effective ways to better protect yourself from getting picked up by SPAM bots. Please know though that this is only one way to protect yourself and in order to be fully protected you need to employ multiple methods that will most likely affect how you use the internet in general. As always. be careful where and what you click!

You can find an example of this at the NEDS Website (http://www.neds.com) in all of our forms.

Brian Duke is an experienced sales professional with New England Data Services, a data center located in the Boston, MA area that offers managed services such as colocation, dedicated servers, remote data backup, and T1/T3\'s.

You can find out more about NEDS by visiting http://www.neds.com or emailing Brian at bduke@neds.com

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