I run an online business, and I have websites in various niches. My websites are all ranked in Google, thus they've been crawled repeatedly. My servers get scanned repeatedly by people trying to hack. I get plenty of spam, thousands and thousands of emails per day, but all but a few a week go into the spambox.
Quote: (07-15-2014 11:54 AM)Katatonic Wrote:
Most people probably don't run in to the same issues guys like puckerman and I do. When your primary business requires you to have a large online presence, spam becomes a problem. Sure, I could nofollow all of my contact pages, but they do play an important role in search algorithms. Since I refuse to take that chance especially in competitive niches, I leave my sites open to being scraped for email addresses.
Of my 80 or so current email accounts, less than half have a bad spam problem. The best spam filters around can't stop smart spammers though. I value the finite amount of time I have per day to build my businesses, and every minute I have to deal with spam is money out of my pocket.