How to control email spam from your web site or blog?

People usually place their email ids on their blogs or personal web sites. After some days, their inboxes will be flooded with a lot of unwanted or spam emails. Even I experienced with my email id on this blog. My inbox was flooded with a lot of bulk emails after placing my email id on my blog. This spam is due to web bots, which check the email ids on the web sites and spams those email ids. Hence email ids should be placed on the sites in such a way that bots cannot identify them.

Then I searched for other options. Second option is using [dot], [at] and [underscore] notation. In this notation, my email on blog is shown as kiran[dot]mall[at]gmail[dot]com. Recent bots are much more intelligent. Then even can identify email ids in this notation. Finally, I changed my email id on my blog as an image. There are lots of email id image converters, out of which I found this site as good one. Bots cannot identify email ids on this case. But you should not give your email id in "alt" attribute of the "image" tag.

Otherwise, you can try disposable email services to quickly create unusual email id to receive emails. Sites like http://www.spamgourmet.com/ gives you free disposable email addresses that can be setup to receive only restricted number of messages.

Category: Internet