I Love Email Spammers and You Should Too!

If you are getting lots of email spam then you might be interested to know this means your web site is getting found easily on the Web. And if you are a business that wants to get noticed then this is a good thing. In life you have to deal with the good, the bad and the ugly. In this case 'the bad and the ugly' is having all those email spammers and marketing companies finding you as well.

I receive up to +100 pieces of email spam per day and have become accustomed to deleting them quickly. It only takes a few seconds to review, delete junk emails and spam emails.

First thing each morning (after lots of coffee of course) I login to my spam catcher at https://login.postini.com/exec/login



The Postini interface allows me to do a quick glance for keeping, deleting, delivering or approving sender emails. This usually takes me about one to two minutes to do each morning.



If you are listed in Web directories and search engines, then spammers can easily find you. If belong to any online mailing lists, e-zines, newsletters, Blogs, bulletin boards/ forums then spammers and marketers are finding you through these online channels as well.

If you own a website or multiple websites then spammers will also bombard your email addresses based on your web address and other email domain addresses found in your web site pages and inside web site forms.

You can have a web developer install security scripts in all your web forms. This type of system requires a user to enter a random code in ANY web form before they hit the submit button. This helps to cuts down on most spam (not all, but most), however doing this makes it a little more difficult for someone filling out your web-based form.

See the illustration below:

As a business owner I prefer not having any blocks or hurdles between me and a potential customer. When you have any security script installed in your web form then all it takes is one entry mistake for a number or character and the form submission will fail and ask them to try again. For someone who is in a hurry, prone to keyboard mistakes or has difficulty seeing their screen up close; this can be extremely frustrating.

This is why I do not have any security scripts on my website contact or inquiry forms. Although I use Postini, I still have to deal with spam.

If you want customers to contact you, it’s best to keep it simple and easy to do. I would rather see my daily in box filled with 100 spam emails and two new website customer inquiries versus having no customer leads at all.

My message to the spammers and marketers..
'Bring it on... because I have the fastest delete keystroke in town'.

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About the Author
Rick Vidallon is President of Visionefx, a Web design company based in Virginia Beach, Va. They provide services to national companies as well as small to medium businesses throughout the United States.
Rick can be reached at (757) 619-6456 or rick@visionefx.net.