Freelance Design Tips, Tricks & Resources

Hide Your Email from the Spamming Bastards…

too much spam email? encode!If you’re like me, you get about 8 quadrillion spam emails a day. Unfortunately, when you design and develop websites for a living, you have to put your email address out there for those scraping, thieving robots that are out there, looking for your email address to add to databases that are sold to companies that help you enlarge stuff, see stuff you shouldn’t see or find cheap car insurance.

You want to make your email address accessible to the general public so that it’s easy to contact you (and send work and money,) but the minute you do that, you’re opening your box to a lot of spam – and I don’t mean the most awesome lunch product in the world.

One of the ways to avoid this is to encrypt your email address so that normal, real people can use your email, but the bastard will leave you alone. But – how?

Here’s how – Enkoder by Hivelogic. Just fill out the form, hit submit and you’ll get a code snippet that you can easily copy and paste into your HTML, Blog, what have you.

Now, your email address is protected and you can sleep a little easier. Real people with real browsers can contact you – but the robots can shove it.

You’re welcome.

Click Here to Get It (non-affilate link, no spam. really.)

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