SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION
Avoiding Spammer Shutdowns
 Spammers
corrupt thousands of websites each day. Frequently these Websites are shut down
by their ISP (Internet Service Provider) for improper or excessive use.
Minor damage can be done by spammers, such as placing adverts or spam comments on
your blog. These are irritating but unlikely to get you shut down. The following
are more malicious spamming problems, which could get you shut down:
Contact Us Forms
Scripts that automatically send information in a form via email are easily attacked
by hackers. Thousands of spam email messages can be sent using your own Web server.
The high volume of mail could result in your Website being blacklisted or shut down.
The email address must not be available for a bot (also called a Spider or Crawler)
to read. And don’t put the email address in an invisible field – the contents of
the field are easily extracted.
Heavy Server Loads
Google will blacklist you if you use automated scripts to access their site. Microsoft
will also block repeated email attempts.
If you need to send email messages to a number of people, make sure that there is
a pause (at least 30 to 60 seconds) between each email sent.
Excessive Spam Received
Keep your email address as private as possible. Spambots (automated computer programs
designed to send spam) can easily extract this information from your Website. Put
your email address in an image file.Some Website even have an image display a fuzzy
code, to prevent spamming. Make sure that humans can read it though!
Private Web pages
Use a robots.txt file to exclude search engine spiders from Web pages that must
be kept private.
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