You see the spammers employ robots (automated software) to scan the web sites on the Internet and locate the email addresses that they can use to send unsolicited offers to people. If you publish your email address openly on your site, this address is going to be harvested for sure and then you can look forward to more spam that you can imagine.

What’s the way out? You can publish your address like info AT domain DOT com and put a note for people to replace AT and DOT with ‘@’ and ‘.’  – easy to figure out for a human being but difficult to identify for the robots.

However the best method is to put a contact form where the visitors can fill their request and contact details. The form processing script can then send a mail to you as well as send an automated thank you response to the visitor.

Are you using any other process to provide a channel for your visitors to contact you? Why don’t you post a comment and share that with us and other fellow readers?

1. A frequently updated blog can make your site appear to be fresh and regularly updated. Search engines love such site and quickly index the new content.

2. It is really tricky to update the main site if you do not have a web maintenance contract with some web development agency or a freelancer. However you can add new content to your blog quite easily through a user-friendly interface.

3. You can make small and big announcements on your blog and the clients can get notified of the update through your announcement list or through the RSS Feed of the blog.

4. The new products can be announced on the blog as soon as they are available. You don’t need to wait for the agency to update the site to let your clients know about these new products.

5. Your blog can be submitted to the large number of blog directories – these result in quality incoming one-way links and add to your search engine reputation and ranking.

Our Linux hosting with support for PHP and MySQL is perfect for hosting WordPress based blogs. WordPress is considered as the most powerful blog software and is highly customisable.

It is FREE too – so you do not need to buy it. Just pay a small charge for setup and integration of the blog with your main site and optionally (highly recommended) get it promoted. All the details of the blog setup service are here. Learn about our Linux web hosting packages here.

As someone who has been dealing with blogs for a long time and after preaching to several companies about the need for a blog, I decided to take time out to set up a blog for Ebizindia also.

If you have bought any of our services or are planning to buy one, you will find ways to make a better use of the service and increase your return on investment.

Our support helps people get more benefit out of our web hosting, web promotion and other services. We will discuss some of those ways for you to profit from.

You might pick up a good tip, even if you are not an Ebizindia customer. So keep watching this space.

And thanks for stopping by

Arun