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Do you list you email on your website, or do you use contact form? (16 posts)

Topic tags: contact form, email

Jason Wiser said
1 year, 1 month ago:
I was just checking out the about page on Kikolani and noticed that our club leader @kristi-hines has her email listed. What about the scrapers, bots, and spammers?
Fellow Clubbers, do you encrypt your email like yourname (at) yousite (dot), use contact form only, list your email and dont worry about it, or do you have another anti-spam solution?
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Mac said
1 year, 1 month ago:
I used to write it as name at gmail, but I realize that I don’t see much spam and having a hyperlink makes it easier for a technically challenged person.
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Nichole Schlecht said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@jasonwiser
I use both a form and my email address. I did get some spam at first but it’s stopped for the most part. My anti-spam solution… Many of the emails I received were in violation of the CAN-SPAM act so I would respond to the email and let them know. They never emailed after that. Don’t know why. =)
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@jasonwiser I use Email Address Encoder (http://www.wbwip.com/wbw/emailencoder.html). You just put in your email address and it gives you the HTML for each character. It makes it a lot harder for spam bots to grab it, but easy for regular people to use it if they prefer email over the contact form. I like having it as a backup if the contact form doesn’t work for some reason either.
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Trudy Phillips said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@kristi-hines @iamconsulting @richardmclaughlin @jasonwiser. I have both options, hyperlink to send email and a contact form. Seems to work well and I seen no increase in spam.
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Mac said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@trudy knock wood
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Jason Wiser said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@kristi-hines Ok headed over there now. Thanks.
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Charlene Kingston said
1 year, 1 month ago:
I don’t have my email address listed on my site. My contact form emails me. Anyone who has a business relationship with me knows my email address from my newsletters, etc.
It’s a calculated decision I’ve made. I could have gone other ways. It’s working for me, at least for now. I’ve learned to always keep an open mind about alternative strategies.
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Kristy C. Cartier said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@jasonwiser My site isn’t launched; however, I would lean towards a contact form. If I do put my email out there, I’ll use the generic info@ and probably have a filter program (i.e. “type in the letters above”) to slow down the spammers. Glad to hear that the email on the website isn’t getting overwhelmed. Thanks for the info – great question!
p.s. I do have my general email posted to my LinkedIn account…
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Jason Wiser said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@kc_kreative noticed that about linkedin and other sites, They must have some anti scrapping software, like @kristi-hines mentioned, to prevent the bots. Interesting.
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Amy Hall, Virtual Assistant for WordPress and MailChimp Help said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@jasonwiser Contact form – that way I know where the lead originated from.
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E N Brown said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@kc_kreative said “a filter program (i.e. “type in the letters above”) to slow down the spammers.”

This type of little aid is called a “CAPTCHA” program and stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”.
Just FYI
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Kristy C. Cartier said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@supereb Thanks E.N. my mind is a bit frazzled of late with our conference coming up in just over a week. I couldn’t remember CAPTCHA!
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Diane Aull said
1 year, 1 month ago:
Add me to the contact form column. I like being able to specify certain fields as required… otherwise people are liable to, say, send me an email requesting a phone call but forget to give me their phone number.
By using a form with all the necessary information in separate fields, it tends to guide people toward furnishing me with the information I need to be able to respond intelligently to their message.
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Robin Carlisle said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@amyhallbiz Great point, Amy. Knowing where that lead came from is very important. I actually started putting my email in some of my posts, but will start referring them to my contact form because of this. Thanks for bringing that up. The reason I’ve started spelling things out and explaining exactly how to contact me in some of my posts is because I’ve gotten feedback from some people who say they literally get brain-freeze and don’t know what to do, where to look, what to click, etc., when they’ve got a problem or want to respond quickly. I can empathize with that sometimes. So, when I want people to respond to something specifically now, I spell it out exactly how they should do that. Just putting my email in the post was the easiest way, but now I’ll point them to my comment box again, just so I have that tracking record. Thanks.
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Jason Wiser said
1 year, 1 month ago:
And in some cases, I love to use Contact Form 7 and create a separate form to control the subject line, and other contact specific features, to make sorting through emails easier. Just a thought, “when you want people to respond to something specifically” @atlantarobin
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