Email Availabilty on Blogs

Scoble has yet again kicked up a bit hornet’s nest with his assertion that bloggers should include their email address. I, for one, agree with him. However, he then goes further and states that the best method to do this is to include the address in a post so that it can be indexed by search engines. On this point, I don’t agree.

While making it easy for people to contact you through your blog should be a top priority, (hell, that’s why you started a blog, right?) simply giving up your email address to spam bots to harvest is extremely foolish. Most people don’t have Microsoft’s IT team busily filtering out spam for us.

So what’s the answer? Well, it’s not perfect, but javascript email obsfucation is a good solution. There are a ton of different solutions out there, but Tim Williams has a very easy to use form on his site that will allow you to choose what the link text will say, what the email address should be, and presto – it produces javascript you can copy and paste into your blog template.

[tags] email, email on blogs, email obsfucation [/tags]