Posted by Greg N. on 09/10/05 01:15

chlori wrote:

> Some of my customers are complaining that someone/something is spamming
> the contact forms on their sites in the last weeks.

1. Keep your form pages off the search engines. Put a <meta
name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> whereever you offer a form,
like feedback pages, guestbooks, etc. If the robots don't know about the
forms pages, the spammers won't easily find them, short of running their
own crawler.

2. Change the form page's URL every other month or so. It takes some
time for the spammers between harvesting forms pages URLs and using
those URLs in their spam bots. By changing the URL regularly, you stay
ahead of the spam.

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