Hide Your Email Address

Hide your email address away to prevent the spammer's spiders from seeing your email addresses.

Yes, the vast majority of spam to email addresses which have been shown on your web pages, has been harvested by an internet robot. These are sent out to scan the internet to gain your email address, which is then sold on to the spammers.

How do you put your email address onto a web page in such a way that the email spiders cannot lift the html and use it to send you emails?

Address Email Hide - Choice 4

The simplest disguise would be to replace the "@" with "& # 64". This is the ISO character set for the @ symbol, which browsers automatically translate back to @.

This is what the SpamBot spiders would see - choice 4

"your-name and #64 your-email-address.com/"

Address Email Hide - Choice 3

The next level of defense is to use JavaScript. This is not as scary as it sounds. Just place the following JavaScript in the <body> of your HTML file, remembering to insert your own name and email address.

This splits up your addresses to confuse the spambots, looks normal on the page and will open a 'new message' page as usual.

This is what the SpamBot spiders would see - choice 3

"<script language="javascript">  </script>"

Address Email Hide - Choice 2

My next suggestion would be to convert the email address to escape code. This would be scary for me, if it wasn't for an excellent free service provided by Ecardiff.net

Editors note; This site was down on 23may09. If they have folded - pity!

Here you simply type your email address into the top box and hit the 'encrypt' key. Your address email hide code will appear in the bottom box ready to copy and paste into the body of your HTML file.

This is what the SpamBot spiders would see - choice 2

"<script language='javascript' type='text/javascript'>document.
writeln(unescape('%3C%61%20%68%72%65%66%3D%69%6C
%74%6F%3A%6D%61%69%6C%2E%6E%61%6D%65%65%2E
%40%63%6F%6D%70%61%6E%79%2E%6E%61%6D%6D%65
%63%6F%6D%27%3E%46%75%6C%6C%20%4E%61%27%6D
%61%3C%2F%61%3E'))</script>"

Address Email Hide - Choice 1

And finally 'The Enkoder'. Our suggestion for the best way to disguise your email address most effectively, is to use the simple form on

http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form

The Enkoder helps protect email addresses by converting them into encrypted JavaScript code, hiding them from email-harvesting robots while revealing them to real people.

If you fill out The Enkoder form it will give you - for free - the encoded html which you can place on your web pages.

When anyone clicks on the encoded link it will open up their email client with the address to you already filled in.

To see an example of what this looks like go to our Contact Page.

This is roughly what the email address harvesting SpamBot spiders would see - choice 1

"keode=\"oked\\\"=k ode\\\"\\\\==dxke)o(}dcCeaoCroh fmgri.tn=rxS8
"3f);(-AieedtCea ocreho.=d{k+ci)h+g;et.needlkeio0i;r=f('o=;;'\\e\\
,\\\\"+"*>,*0=w4qkojhhr1+gDndwfuhkr1Bgwnq kojhhr1?g+n{lh.r@0g0n\\\
\\l\\\\w,"+"u+kD1dgfnh,r..+4Dldwfuhkr1@g{n,.@~l5,.0>w4qkojhhr1+gl
*r@>>*{{@%gh"+"0r\\\\00\\\\\g\\\n,\\\\+fghFrduFkrpiuj1lqwu@V{.;>45
?3+fli6>,0+lDwghFrdu"+"fkh1rg@n~f.,l.k>jwhq1oghnrl?3>l@u+ir*>@*_{/
5Ay(kgjBgy rxgjkF{o7s1x\\\\7"+"\\\\\\\\(\\\\(uCDrbobkbzyzx(jyFk
ug@k7{\\\\71\\\\\\\\zo\\\\subrlgx(&"+"CBk.nzgx(4ktos}izjk@{_u
h%rg@ng%nh\\\\r\\\\\\\"e\\\\o=\\\\dk\\\";kode=kode."+"split('').
reverse().join(''\\\")x;'=;'of(r=i;0ik(do.eelgnht1-;)+i2={)+xk="+
"do.ehcratAi(1++)okedc.ahAr(t)ik}do=e+xi(kdo.eelgnhtk?do.ehcrat
Ak(do.eelgn"+"ht1-:)'';)\";x='';for(i=0;i(kode.length-1);i+=2){x+
=kode.charAt(i+1)+kode"+".char At(i)}kode=x+(ik odee.length?kode.
charAt(kode.length-1):'');"=ec(0eic"

Enough to make the keenest email address spider look elsewhere for his lunch!

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