You know how essential digital security is, so why aren't you protecting your corporate contact information like you guard your online identity? Business email addresses must be included on websites to ensure people can reach you, but they also turn you into a great target. If your email address is included on your website as plain text, it's fair game for the millions of bots roving the web. Here are some tips on avoiding trouble by converting your text-based email address to an image they can't hack.

Bot Basics

Bots are self-operating programs that take many forms. Like the web crawlers that index pages for search purposes, there are thousands of malicious bots combing through online info. Many are primarily used for collecting email addresses. While you definitely want your consumers to have consistent access to such info, any bots that gain it will only sell it to mass advertising lists, meaning you can expect a tons spam unless you employ an email to image converter.

How to Know If You're Vulnerable and What to Do About It

Load your homepage. If you can highlight your email address and copy-paste the characters into a text editor or your browser's address bar, then a bot can get them too. Email to image converters work around this problem by changing each text email address into a clear picture of the same. Your consumers and visitors can still easily read your email address and type it into their mail client, while bots cannot decipher the image's contents. Best of all, the image file sizes are extremely small, meaning that this type of fast fix won't ever slow down your site.