Stop Spam

You will find once the position of your website has improved you are likely to receive an increased amount of spam email.

Although we provide email marketing services it is always permission based. We are strongly opposed to mail emailing know as spam. We have provided these tips to help you minimise the amount of spam you receive.

Tips to stop spam:

Techniques to stop spam fall into two categories: Filtering out spam and minimising the exposure of your email addresses

Anti Spam Software:

A good anti spam software is essential, it will save you time and frustration and considering how inexpensive it is to buy (typically $30) it should be considered as a must have.

What to look for in anti spam software:

Firstly any anti spam software must be easy to use, it must handle multiple email accounts individually , it must enable the user to create their own blacklists, filters and friends, it should remove email directly from your web server before it comes to your PC and it should be able to link to online databases of spam mailers.

We have tested numerous anti spam software products and found the best to be MailWasher Pro

Reducing the risk of getting spam:

Don't give out your email address, particularly a business email address. If you want to take part in internet activities that require an email address. Set up a temporary email address.

Never use catch all email accounts. A catch all email accounts sends anything@yourdomain.co.uk to you.

Some spam emailers use computer programs to guess at email addresses. So use unusual email addresses containing numbers and letters e.g.mickey45mouse75@yourdomain.co.uk.

Never reply to spam, if they have guessed your email, it confirms it works and opens the door to more spam email.

Computer robots are used to harvest email addresses from web pages. These robots read the HTML code of your pages and wherever they see an email address or a mailto hyperlink, they record it. Companies then sell millions of email addresses on CD ROMS. One way of avoiding this is don't write any email addresses on your web pages and don't create email hyperlinks. If you wish to display an email address create an image of the text instead, robots can't read images.

If you want to enable users of your website to contact you online, provide a form. But make sure the "send to" email address is not contained in the page HTML, but in the form processing script.