How To Protect Your Emails On Your WordPress Website From Spam Bots

If you have a website, there’s a good chance that your email address is listed somewhere on it (which it typically should be). However, unfortunately, you may have noticed that you receive a lot of spam emails that you never signed up for. What’s happening is things called bots (short for robots) scrape the web and pull out email addresses which then get used for spammers.

Spam emails have plagued internet users for years, clogging up inboxes and causing frustration. One effective way to reduce spam is by encoding email addresses on websites. In this article, we will explore the importance of this practice and how it can deter automated email-harvesting bots.

Stopping Spam From Website

Luckily, there are some ways to get around this. One of the simplest ways to encode your emails is to use the Email Encoder plugin. Simply install and activate the plugin. From a user perspective, it looks no different. Your email is still displayed and when a visitor clicks on it, it still opens up the mailto link and creates an email. However, from the bots perspective, the email address in encoded and harder for them to scrape.

Spammers will just glance over it, but the functionality for your users remains.

To test to make sure your email is protected, type in your url on this Email Protection Checker website. Hopefully, you’ll see something like this image.

The battle against spam emails requires proactive measures, and encoding email addresses on your website is undoubtedly an effective strategy. It’s a much cleaner solution than completely removing your email and it looks way more professional than writing out your email in a way that is confusing to visitors (ex. [dot] instead of .com).