When I click on a “contact” link, I rather be taken to a page where I can click a link to email somebody rather than filling a contact form. I guess either I’m too lazy or I prefer using my email client.

If you’ve published your email address on your website, you know it can be caught by automated scripts that crawl the web to find potential mailboxes to spam.

So how can you publish your email while hidding it from spammers? The answer is easy: simply use some Javascript to break your email address into multiple lines of code so it won’t be caught by those malicious scripts.

Here’s an example:

<script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript”>
document.write(’<a href=”mailto:johndoe’);
document.write(’@nowhere.com”>Send me an email</a>’);
</script>

Inserting this code in your web page would display an email link that is invisible to search engines since they do not support client-side scripting.

Adding a local search engine to your website not only serves your visitors: it will provide you with a tremendous amount of precious data. You will learn about what your visitors are looking for, how do they search for it, the most popular searches, etc. You can then put this data to your service by optimizing your pages, writing new content, etc.

I used to use phpDig a lot but since it hasn’t been updated since 2005, so I need to find an alternative. I’ve found out about Sphider, a free PHP crawler, so we’re going to try it out today.

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If you are using the sitemap plugin for Wordpress from Arne Brachhold, you may have the need to add additional pages which are not generated by your blog. If you’ve got a handful of pages, the sitemap plugin gives your the possibility to add them manually through the option page. There is also an option that allows the plugin to build the sitemap based on requests sent to your web server.

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