We are all tired of spammers finding our email addresses and sending us junk email. Even if you have a good spam filter in your email account, these spam messages always get through.

I’ve heard clients getting so frustrated that they ask their web developers to remove email addresses from all pages of their websites. Of course this works… but at the expense of the end user.

Did you know that you can protect your email address and still use it on your site?

Spammers look at the code behind the email address. In code, xxx@marissaberger.com looks like “<a href=”mailto:xxx@marissaberger.com”>. Spammers basically order their robots to search for the  ”mailto:”  code that generates an email link. That’s how they get your email address.

The good news is that this “mailto:” code can now be protected using Javascript so spammers can’t get it. So don’t lose your temper, just ask your web developer to protect all email addresses on your site. You win; the end user winds; spammers lose.