Learn why spam hurts your web site

Here’s a good article that tells you why you should be diligent about stopping comment and pingback spam on your web site.

The key points:

• You are undermining your site’s SEO
• You are attracting more spam
• You are damaging your reputation

Here’s the full article.

If you haven’t activated Akismet on your WordPress site, now’s a good time to start.

Tags: akismet, seo, spam

Adding non-spammable email address

I’ve been customizing a template for a website and am looking for a way to include an email address that can’t be found by a bot and spammed. I do not want to use something kludgy like “write us at admin (at) webweavers.org.” I have been trying to follow the instructions on the WordPress site on how to do this, and they cryptically mention the following:

“You can use a free online encoder to encode your email address or use the antispambot() function built into WordPress:

<?php echo antispambot(get_the_author_email()); ?>"

There are no instructions on how to access this
functionality. Do I put it in my header?
My footer? Anywhere I like?
What precisely am I supposed to write?
Where do I put in the actual address?

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Tags: contact, email, spam