The problem with a lot of website contact forms which then email the contents, is the problem of SPAMBOTS which crawl through the web, looking for forms and filling in the fields with junk before sending them to the recipient.

One way of battling this problem is with form validation one form of which is the CAPTCHA method whereby the user has to fill in the image shown to them at the end of the form. SPAMBOTS cannot “read” this image so the contents of the spam is not forwarded on and only human responses are received.

So to reduce SPAM for our telecom client Vodat International, we have just implemented the CAPTCHA form validation which should dramatically reduce their SPAM and wasted time. This has been undertaken as part of our ongoing website maintenance, online marketing and search engine optimisation (SEO) services for Vodat.

Tags: CAPTCHA, Web Design

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