Eliminate Form Spam with CAPTCHA

Incorporating Forms on Your Site? Got “CAPTCHA”?

If your website features any form, chances are you’ll inevitably encounter the nuisance of “form spam.”

This issue can affect various forms on your site, including blog post comments, Contact Us forms, inquiry forms, and more. Spammers use “spambots” to scour the internet for forms. Once they find a form, these bots infiltrate and start sending spam. Their goal is to get their submissions visible on forums or platforms to promote their links. Non-forum or non-blog comment forms are of little interest to them, as they don’t care about those messages. Even if only a small percentage of their spam gets through, it’s a success for them.

Your business can become a target for this type of spam attack. The content of these messages is often unclear or nonsensical. What starts as around 10 messages a day can quickly escalate to 20, 50, or even more, becoming incredibly irritating.

Fortunately, there is a solution to tackle most, if not all, of these form spam attacks: CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA, which stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” requires users to input the characters and digits shown in an image to verify they are human. This method is highly effective and can significantly reduce or eliminate form spam.

Ensure that CAPTCHA has been properly installed

When we create new website software for you, incorporating CAPTCHA is a crucial step. Additionally, integrating CAPTCHA into your existing software might extend the development timeline slightly. However, the benefits of implementing CAPTCHA are significant. This strategic addition enhances your business’s productivity by reducing, and ideally eliminating, these bothersome spam attacks.