Email Icon Generator to protect your Email Address from spam
One of the biggest issues having a blog is dealing with comment spam. Email harvesters crawl your blog like search engines and find and extract email addresses from web pages. An Email address always contains an @ symbol. These email harvesters do a pattern search for a combination that looks like abc@xyz.com in the HTML source of your web pages. So how to keep your email address visible to humans and your blog visitors but keep them invisible to email spiders.
One of the best methods I find is replacing the email message from text to an image. This results in your email being visible to your blog visitors but invisible to spam bots. There are many other ways which you can use to prevent your email from being spammed and how to hide your email address from spammers.
For now, I will share with you an E-Mail Icon generator which creates an Image Icon of your Email Address. You can use this email image for displaying your email address in your blog.
Some of the example email icons
(Please note that if you make the icon clickable using a “mailto:” link, or use your e-mail address in the icon’s alt-text, your e-mail address will be visible to address collecting robots!)
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June 5th, 2007 at 2:17 am
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