Where do they get your address from?

Easy - they simply harvest it from the coding of your website. By using harvesting software they simply run through millions of websites harvesting any and all email addresses by reading the coding. So we need to hide the email address in the coding.

Also, an email address such as info@ - is a given - and you can literally send gunkmail to any info@ anydomain and you might get a 80% success rate.Further - people send mails to you saying that Microsoft or similar is giving away money if you just send this mail to as many people as you can, with testimonials of it having worked for others - CAUTION !! This is a known method of harvesting email addresses - all the addresses that you forward this mail to, will start receiving viagra offers within one week, so please notify all your friends as well. Don't forward mail unless from a trusted source.

OR - get yourself a gmail account (free of charge) and get all your friends to forward all the "teddy bear" mails to that account, and use the business email address for business only.

The best possible solution

There is light at the end of the tunnel. But as these things go, there are negatives as well as positives.

First solution – Redo your current email address so that it shows on your website as a Flash file. This would mean it looks more like a picture and not text.

We currently use Flash to design booking/enquiry forms on new websites because search engines are unable to access and read the content in a Flash file. This means they cannot access the recipient email address to gunk it.

As a matter of interest, this is also the reason why a website designed entirely in Flash will never be able to rank in search engines.

Second solution – We cloak your email address - meaning we use a script to hide it from being harvested inthe coding of your website. See our own contact page to see what it looks like - all our email addresses have been cloaked.