If your a webmaster you will know how annoying it is to find you have about 200 e-mails in your inbox about “free viagra” and “you have won £1,000,000″ and all sorts of random stuff like that, this can happen for many reasons but one is spam bots, which do the same as search engine spiders and search the web but for e-mail addresses, save them to bring them back to the owner so you can be spammed to high heaven, there are ways to prevent this or cut down the chance.

Here are the most common used examples.

1.) Display an image with your e-mail address on it, this is the only 100% foolproof way but it can annoy customers/visitors because they cant copy and paste it.

2.) Display your e-mail address like:

email[at]gmail[dot]com

3.) Use code tags for your @ symbol. Put the symbols between the opening and closing HTML code tags tags.
email @gmail.com

4.) If you are using contact forms then the way to stop spam with forms will be using CAPTCHA which requires the user to enter a code from a dynamic image displayed to prove they are human.

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