how to stop spammers from filling out my contact form?

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nonai

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every day I receive dozens of these messages through my contact form. they look like the typical spam like "thank for you your information, I enjoyed it"

I am not using wordpress so I cannot use any plugins.
I cannot noindex the pages because all pages contain a contact form so I would end up noindexing the entire website.

How can I stop the spam messages?

 

techblog

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The most ideal solution is having a captcha enabled.
That helps in weeding out 95% of the automated spam.

 

macdonjo3

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As said above, a captcha will get rid of the majority of, if not all spam. How do you know it's a bot though, and not a virtual assistant?

http://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html

 

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nonai

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I dont want to use captcha because its not user friendly and a lot of people will change their mind and not fill out the contact form.

 

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BlackAutomation

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try adding a popup to the page when loaded.

 

techblog

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even if you want to stay away from captcha , you can opt for simple questions like : "what color is blue" or 2+3= ?

well the answers are simple and if the visitor is pretty serious , he will contact you anyway...

If not, you will have to deal with SPAM!

 

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Roundhouse

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• Apr 27, 2014

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the easiest and best way is to make a PREVIEW COMMENT option as the only option, and when someone hits preview comment - it refreshes to same page with a POST COMMENT button enabled

 

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use captcha