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Cloak Your Email On The Web Avoid Spam

February 1st, 2010

Cloak Your Email Address and Still Display it on Your Websites and Blogs For Your Real Visitors

Why Am I Getting All This Email?

It has been shown that email addresses are harvested by spammers and that it can be avoided.

You can fight spam by hiding (or cloaking) your email address.

Who wouldn’t like to keep their email address out of the hands of spammers?

A disclaimer for you: This information is not a guarantee in anyway shape or form. This is an educational informative explanation of one of the methods that I have used to cloak my email address and still be able to display it online so that others wishing to make contact with me or one of my business adventures can freely do so. You further understand that if you perform any of this steps that I outline in this information you do so at your own risk. I am not offering you a service or product here; I am offering you a look inside one of my business practices as an informative and educational act of kindness.

Why would you want to cloak your email address?

To display it for your real visitors, so that they can have access to you and your business.
Avoid the spam
Beat the email spiders
Create more productive time that you invest in your business

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Ok let’s view the steps in the video and keep this post handy. You will want to refer to it later and use the links that are in it.

Email spiders are automated pieces of software or programs that go out over the web searching for email addresses.

Raw emails addresses are generally displayed by well meaning individuals wanting to conduct business online.

Unfortunately the majority of these individuals don’t know that by displaying a raw email address on the Internet they are providing spammers and email harvesters access to a legitimate email address. Then you are left sorting out all the junk and spam email wasting your business time and efforts.

Today we are going to talk about cloaking your email address in a manner that scrambles it use html code or java script. It is actually free to do.

A few of the reasons that I choose to use this script to cloak my online email addresses are that it is:

It’s simple! No training required and no learning curve
No DLLs installed and no IE dependencies to conflict with other software
Compact and simple – just one 180k executable file – no installation
Works with all versions of Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Really freeware! No spy-ware, no ad-ware no parasites

This script will work on regular static web pages and many of the blogging platforms that are offered today. I use WordPress as a blogging platform and will be addressing it in this report.

This is not the only method that works for this particular issue; however it is one of them best practices to cloak your email address anytime you post it on the web, this does work and is used successfully by many others today.