Do you currently have your email address on your website? It is set up to where anyone can click on it and have your email address ready to send you an email? If so, you are leaving yourself open to email spambots.

I know, can you believe their are people in this world that will take all the effort to create spam and send it to you.  And even though their is the  CAN Spam Law we still keep fighting to eliminate it from our lives.

So, how do you fight back spam and receive only those emails you want to receive? Here are a few options that have worked for us.

The one service I think every business should seriously consider is Spam Arrest. I was introduce to this service a number of years ago, but I felt that my email spam filter would do the job. However, even with the improve spam blocker system my email provider was offering, the spam seem to get by. I decided to take my friends recommendation, and I wish I would have taken his advice when he first mentioned it to me.

What Spam Arrest does is anytime someone sends you an email, they are sent an email requiring the sender to enter a captcha to make sure it is a real person sending you the email and not some spam trying to get through.  Once they have completed this process, then their email will be delivered to you. This means that you will only receive emails from a real person who actually goes through the process that Spam Arrest has set up.

You can also easily add and approve your contacts so they don’t have to go through the process. Once someone goes through the process the first time, they would not be required to do so every time they send you an email.

If you are tired of getting spam, you should take a serious look at this service. It will save you a lot of time going through all your spam and deleting it.

Another service we use which is cheap and effective is My Contact Station.  This has a more Web 2.0 feel and their is no process that someone has to go through to send you an email. You can check out My Contact Station in action at here on our contact page. Click on the “Email Us” link and there you can check it out. While you’re there, send us an email and say, hi!

If you are still dealing with spam, don’t be like me and put it off. If I were to add up all the time I put in to going through deleting all the spam I ever received, it think it would be pushing a half of years time.