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[relliott]

Originally Posted by jkogel

Hello DM
A new Question - My email address is on my website, contact page.
I don't know but I suspect that a spam worm has searched a trillion webpages and found my address sitting there like a lame duck.
To prevent this, could leaving a space help divert this, ie,
myname @ mymail.com? Any other suggestion?

John Kogel
www.allsafehome.ca

Haha
Thats why it pays to have more than one e-mail address.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Try this

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">

emailE=('yourname@' + 'emailserver.com')
document.write('<A href="mailto:' + emailE + '">' + emailE + '</a>')
//-->
</script>

<NOSCRIPT>
<em>Email address protected by JavaScript.<BR>
Please enable JavaScript to contact me.</em>
</NOSCRIPT>

[jkogel]

Thanks, I'll just copy and paste that in, mucho gracias.
Here's a green smiley for you........

John Kogel
www.allsafehome.ca

[Dominic J. Maricic]

No problem john. Enjoy

[jkogel]

Hey DM

I've inserted the code into my webpage.

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">

emailE=('yourname@' + 'emailserver.com')
document.write('<A href="mailto:' + emailE + '">' + emailE + '</a>')
//-->
</script>

<NOSCRIPT>
<em>Email address protected by JavaScript.<BR>
Please enable JavaScript to contact me.</em>
</NOSCRIPT>

Now tell me what it does. Why would JavaScript contact me? To warn me about bot activity on my site? To sell me something? Is this a free protection service?

John Kogel
www.allsafehome.ca

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Make sure you change

emailE=('yourname@' + 'emailserver.com')

to reflect your email address so mine would show

emailE=('dominic@' + 'homeinspectorpro.com')

What the javascript is doing is splitting up your email address. Spiders/Bots cannot read javascript. So they can't see the email address to harvest it and spam you.

[jkogel]

Thanks, DM. Protection without the threat of broken kneecaps.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Haha. No problem.

[rmaday]

Hey Dominic,

www.websitegrader.com shows that I am NOT in Yahoo, DMOZ or ZoomInfo.

I submitted to all in Feb (and again in April). Should I send em again?

My pagerank is 2, now!

Does del.icio.us help rankings?

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Rick,

No do not resubmit. Yahoo directory and DMOZ (which I'm an editor of a few categories) are human edited directories and because of which it can often take over a year to get added. If you resubmit you actually knock yourself back as it resets your date. Not sure about zoominfo, never really checked the site out much.

Nice job on the PR2 in such a short time!

Any links to your site help, if del.icio.us if linking to you, great.

Dominic

[rmaday]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

DMOZ (which I'm an editor of a few categories) are human edited directories and because of which it can often take over a year to get added.

Thanks,

Hey, can you get with the editor for the real estate category on DMOZ and see if he can speed up the process.

I may be able to get you a Senate seat.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Hmm, sounds like a good trade. I wonder what they get paid?

It takes more than 6 months to get approved to edit a category. I had to submit my info 3 times before my application was accepted. They are looking for specific people.

[rmaday]

Originally Posted by dmaricic

I wonder what they get paid?

$165,200 to start. Plus numerous perks.

[Dominic J. Maricic]

Sounds good to me, I'll see what I can do.

[Michael Vanek]

What do you think about Report Host? They are 5 bucks a report and have great premade templates you can change to custom your business if you want.