How Do You Stop Spam From Coming In Through Your Contact Form?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today I help Linda battle contact form spam! It's an icky problem, but there are solutions. Do you have a problem that makes blogging harder? Leave your question at http://www.askpat.com/. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPat.
0:01.0	AskPat.com.
0:11.0	What's up, everybody?
0:12.0	This is Pat Flynn, and welcome to episode 48 of Ask Pat.
0:15.5	Today's resource is Gravity Forms, which you can find at GravityForms.com.
0:20.5	These are forms for your WordPress site
0:23.4	that you can put in that are really, you know, you can customize them. They are good at getting
0:27.7	rid of spam. They're just the highest quality forms that you can put on your site. There are
0:31.9	free contact form plugins that you could put on your site, but there's nothing like Gravity
0:36.7	Form. So at least just check it
0:37.8	out to see what's about. I've used it before on several of my sites. Now, today's question is from
0:42.5	Linda, which has to do with spam and contact forms and things like that. So let's hear from Linda right now.
0:49.2	Hey, Pat. I love your show. I watch it or I listen to it all of the time. You're very, very helpful in
0:56.9	everything that I try to do. I have a couple of blogs, but I have a question about the contact forms.
1:03.0	My name is Linda, first of all. Sorry about that. I have a couple questions about the contact forms.
1:09.6	I use WordPress and despite all the different types of plug-ins I try to use, people sort
1:17.6	of maliciously just go in and type in anything. They type in random, just letters from the
1:23.6	keypad and I get a lot of spam.
1:41.0	Can you recommend any plug-in or anything that I can use to kind of keep people from sending me these notices or whatever?
1:47.7	I think it's just malicious, but what they do is type in a bunch of gobbledygook on my contact forms and send it to me.
1:50.0	And I get kind of tired of having to delete these things.
1:54.5	Anyway, I hope you can help.
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