Enkoder is designed to do one thing, and it does it well. What Enkoder thankfully does so well is this: it encodes the text of your email address to conceal it from spam harvesting spiders. Your email address appears normal to the average reader, but spiders will ignore it.

Enkoder couldn’t be easier to use. Enter your email address and the link display text in the Enkoder window. Select XHTML or HTML 4 for W3C Compliance. You can also specify mouseOver text and an email subject. Click the Update button and Enkoder spits out your encrypted JavaScript coded address, ready to be cut and paste into your Web pages. The results look like complete gibberish:

Spiders won’t recognize it and will spin their Web elsewhere. Of course, the only way to guarantee that no one can harvest your email address is not to post it on the Web, but Enkoder will make it much more difficult for a spider to decipher.

If you’d rather not run Enkoder on your desktop, you can use an online form at http://automaticlabs.com/products/enkoderform.

Bottom Line: If you have a Web site that includes your email address, you need Enkoder.
From: Automatic
Price: Free