Email Best Practice #3
If you are planning to start off your own website and need to list your contact email address on the ‘Contact Us’ page of your site, here’s a simple piece of advice.
Ideally you should use techniques listed in Email Best Practice #1. However, should you think that your readers will get confused by using special characters in the listing of your email address, one simple technique is to use picture file of your email address in ‘jpeg’ or another image format. We have listed a couple of samples below.
Most web crawlers don’t have the functionality to perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to identify the text of an email address within such an image.
Unfortunately, this technique is only viable provided you are allowed to upload an image, something that not all blogs, websites and fora allow. Nevertheless, be prepared! So whenever you create a new email account, at the same time produce and save a small image using any of the image editing tools available. The images below were created using Microsoft Paint – an application that comes free with every Windows installation.
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