Creating an HTML Email link is very simple. It is also very dangerous. Let's start with the simple part.

The basic HTML Email Link

Say your email address is john@hotmail.com, to create a link on your webpage which opens the default email client, you will create a normal link with "mailto:john@hotmail.com" as the URL. It should look like this: <a href="mailto:john@hotmail.com">John</a>

Pretty easy eh? So now you're wondering why I've devoted an entire web page to this subject! The reason is, that unless you want to receive hundreds of spam emails, you never should create links like the one above!

The Spam-spider and the HTML Email Link...

What you need to understand before you build your first public web page is that Spammers like to collect email addresses from the web with a tool called a spider. A SPAM-spider is a program that follows links around the web reading thousands and millions of web-pages looking for email addresses which it then adds to its database. If your email address is found on your web page, you will soon begin receiving hundreds of junk emails each day.

Most web-masters simply have no idea how to deal with this mess. They don't want to remove contact email information and yet the SPAM load is increasing every day.

Cloak your HTML Email Links!

There are several ways to hide your email address from SPAM-spiders while keeping the link available on your website. Fortunately, you don't need to delve into that because here is a freeware tool which will do it for you.

Web-Email-Cloaker is a free and powerful HTML-Email obfuscating tool which will transform your email address into a form that cannot be read by spiders.

Don't worry about the fact that the code which is created is unreadable. It's supposed to be that way! Just type in the email address and then paste the code in wherever you had planned to place an email link.

Make sure to add this tool to your HTML toolbox. Web-Email-Cloaker is the most powerful cloaker I've yet seen anywhere. It combines the four best cloaking techniques together to confuse even the most clever SPAM-spider.

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