{"id":647,"date":"2009-04-18T10:20:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T00:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2009-04-18T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T00:20:41","slug":"reducing-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/04\/reducing-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across a blog post that very clearly outlines some <a title=\"Anti-spam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.netmarketingtoolbox.com\/2008\/01\/07\/keeping-on-top-of-spam\/\" target=\"_blank\">anti-spam techniques <\/a>for your business email. While it is hard (impossible even) to stop spam completely, we can reduce it for our own sanity.<\/p>\n<p>I will add that contact forms are not a guarantee against getting spam. I have found that the contact form is immune from spam for months\u00a0 and then they hack it and I just reset the form with a new email address to solve the problem. Using captcha or <a title=\"recaptcha\" href=\"http:\/\/savetimeonline.com.au\/blog\/2008\/recaptcha\/\" target=\"_blank\">recpatcha<\/a> reduces the spam entries into the form itself, too.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen made the suggestion of not adding an email address to business cards and printed stationery so there is no need to reprint things if you change your email address. I understand his point &#8211; reprinting is expensive!However, I do a lot of my business via email and actually prefer it to the phone so I want my email address on my cards.<\/p>\n<p>My compromises to Stephen&#8217;s suggestion are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have a soft copy letterhead you print as required so it is easy to adjust the email address<\/li>\n<li>use a different email address on printed items and never use it online so it is less likely to be found by spammers<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t put an email address on expensive printed items<\/li>\n<li>only give out your business card personally &#8211; use a different card or a flyer\/postcard for use in mass handouts (eg in a showbag, at an expo, in a mail out) and don&#8217;t add your email address to that<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again, as someone who likes emails, I would find it annoying to get a business card which didn&#8217;t include an email address &#8211; then I would have to search their website for one. So I think you need to decide if your clients &amp; prospective clients would expect an email address or not before deciding whether or not to print it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you include an email address on your business card? What about on your letterhead and invoices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across a blog post that very clearly outlines some anti-spam techniques for your business email. While it is hard (impossible even) to stop spam completely, we can reduce it for our own sanity. I will add that contact forms are not a guarantee against getting spam. I have found that the contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[919,222,583],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","tag-anti-spam","tag-email","tag-spam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}