The software converts your email addresses to a complex
JavaScript code. A browser like Explorer or Navigator can convert the
JavaScript back into human-readable email addresses. But email spiders
aren't sophisticated enough to handle JavaScript, so they can't collect
the addresses to spam you with.
What if a visitor doesn't have JavaScript?
Non-JavaScript users - which make up less than 5% of
users - will see a link saying 'Contact Us'. When they click on
this they will be taken to a form that allows them
to send you a message.
Is there any way I can protect my whole website from
spam without converting each page individually?
Not yet. We are currently working on some software
which will accept a whole directory of pages, and modify all of
them. Please join our mailing list if you
wish to be notified when this becomes available.
Why does the new page source code contain a link to
seafield-technologies.com?
For 2 - 5 % of your visitors the JavaScript version of
the link will not work. In order for these users to contact you we
provide them with a link to our message form that they can use
instead. Click here to see the form.
This is also one of the reasons, that we can provide the service
free. By adding our link to your web page, though it is invisible
to most people, it helps improve our search engine positioning.
Read more about Google
PageRank if you are
interested. This in turn leads to more traffic and greater advertising revenue.
It also means we may help reduce the amount of spam in the world.
Why haven't all my addresses been encoded?
In order not to 'break' web pages, sometimes the software
leaves an address that it doesn't know how to deal with. An
example of this could be when an HTML tag is not closed properly.
All pages that conform to W3C HTML standards should convert
fully, and so will most other pages.
Will this stop all the spam I receive?
No. This is one important method of preventing spam,
especially if you have a large number of visitors to your website.
For more information about how email address are gathered, read this
article about preventing
spam.
