It is nearly impossible to stop your email address from getting spammed. Even if no one knows it, it will probably get spammed some day.

For emails that are made public, the amount of spam can be devastating. So if you’re going to display your email address, do it the smart way!

For me, the smart way is to use a little JavaScript to mask the email address. That link will take you to a site telling you how to do it, too.

That script is great because it displays a clickable email address to your site visitors, but it just displays some words and code to spam bots.

Why bother?

Well, writing your email address on a web page is just asking for spam. You could put your email in an image and display that, but it’s inconvenient for your visitors and these days, spam bots can decipher the image.

Writing your email like person AT yahoo DOT com can work, but again, it can be a pain for your visitors. Spam bots will surely pick up on that tactic too.

So do yourself a favor and use this JS method. Most people will have JavaScript enabled so you shouldn’t have a big problem with that.

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Every so often a member of the Digitalpoint forums will make a neat new script and give it away. Thankfully this one I found is actually worthwhile - it’s an Ajax Cool Wall script. You can see an example and download the script at that site.

What this does is display a “wall” of photos on your page, and the users get to vote for the ones they like by dragging them to the “cool” category. As cool as that might be, this is Internet Marketing Sucks, so I have a better idea…

I will create a “Sucks wall” on this site where you can vote for the ebooks and special DVD packages and whatever else. But you’ll be voting for which one sucks the worst! Oh what fun is in store!

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