Should I display my email address on my website?

[gabrielle]

Putting an email address on your website may attract spammers and trolls. Perhaps some spiders/bots might even roam the net collecting these to give to spammers.
Do you put your email on your website or do you just use a contact us form?

 

[stoltingmediagroup]

Do you put your email on your website or do you just use a contact us form?

If you are wondering about what to do,
your question has no right or wrong answer, or a "what is best" answer.
Technically you can do "either/or", and in our case, we use "Both".
Much of it depends on the type of website you run.

If you expect the occasional email, then you may not need an extensive ticket script or contact form. Putting a simple email address as contact info would suffice. However, if you do so, you should make it harder for spiders and bots to extract information by adding your email address into an image, as opposed to just typing it as text onto your page.

If choosing to use a "contact us" form, just be aware that this will be no guarantee that you won't be spammed. Current bots are programmed to look for certain fields and extract information from them, and/or submit spam to you anyway. So in the end, think about the type of experience you want for your customers and visitors to have, and decide what to do based on that.

 

[AbeloHost]

Yes, you should put. You have nothing to lose, and only to gain. Think about it.

 

[ypson]

We do and there are ways to protect it while maintaining its mailto: functionality. There are several approaches, some by scripting, some by html entities (no scripting involved).

 

[Noticemenot]

Why Now... Create a Contact us page and add your email address in that page.

 

[imnathanjames]

I learned the hard way. It's best not to.
You will end up with a lot, and i mean a lot of spam. Weird stuff to.
Just use the contact form with a capture to stop spammers and you should be good.

You could always test it with a test email address first.

Hope this helps.

 

[aashisk]

Putting an email address on your website may attract spammers and trolls. Perhaps some spiders/bots might even roam the net collecting these to give to spammers.
Do you put your email on your website or do you just use a contact us form?

If you want people to reach out to you, in case you are doing some online business (sell & purchase) then ofcourse. But if you dont want your email inbox to be flooded or spammed then you must avoid adding your email publicly