Email text in SEO

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sxope

Newbie

Jul 12, 2017

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• Aug 5, 2017

• #1

Hello friends, can i add plain text or clickable text email address in my webpage? Which is preferable by SEO point of view?

 

Nargil

Elite Member

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May 10, 2012

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• Aug 5, 2017

• #2

SEO wise it's not a problem, but you might get spammed to death thanks to the automated email scrapers.

 

RealGibson

Regular Member

Jul 12, 2017

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• Aug 5, 2017

• #3

Avoid plain text like the plague. Links still get scraped obviously. We use a lot of "info@" or "web@" email addresses and have them forward to dance around spam as much as possible. Once the incoming spam gets to unbearable, we change the listed email address to something new.

 

wangbu

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Apr 6, 2008

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• Aug 7, 2017

• #4

True, this is not an seo thing but more of a usability and spam issue.

Making it clickable gives visitors a quicker action to mail you but you will surely get spammed to death.

Here's a nice article / tutorial for this - websitehelpers.com/spam/ (I don't own the site)