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How to Safely Share your Email Address Online
You have just come across a new website at example.com that offers an interesting software utility or an ebook for free. The offer is simple – you give them your email address and they’ll send you the download links over email.
Now while the website policy clearly states that they “won’t sell your email address to third-parties,” you aren't feeling very comfortable sharing your private email address with a website that you've never heard about before. What do you do then?
Do you plan to skip the offer just because you’re worried that spam might hit your email Inbox? Well, stop worrying and get a disposable email address that will auto-expire after some hours (or some days). [via]
Now while the website policy clearly states that they “won’t sell your email address to third-parties,” you aren't feeling very comfortable sharing your private email address with a website that you've never heard about before. What do you do then?
Do you plan to skip the offer just because you’re worried that spam might hit your email Inbox? Well, stop worrying and get a disposable email address that will auto-expire after some hours (or some days). [via]
There are quite a few websites that offer disposable email addresses for free but my favorite is 10minutemail.com. Just visit the and you’ll get a temporary email address that you can use anywhere on the web just like your regular email address (you can even reply and forward message).
The email addresses will self-destruct after, you guessed it right, 10 minutes. They regularly switch their email server domains – you might have been allotted abc@hello.com today but the alias next day could become xyz@bye.com. This prevents forum administrators from blocking members that use temporary addresses.
When Disposable Email Addresses Aren’t Enough..
You may use disposable email addresses when filling out online surveys, registration forms, comment forms, etc. but when you need to share your email address on a public website (like Twitter), disposable addresses won’t help as they expire pretty soon.
You still have a couple of options though.
Scr.im will convert your email address into a short web address (URL). People will have to pass a small CAPTCHA test to see your actual email address (see example).
Another service that can potentially save your email from spammers is reCAPTCHA. The service will require “human” users to solve a CAPTCHA for them to see your full email address in plain text. Here’s a demo:
Another service that can potentially save your email from spammers is reCAPTCHA. The service will require “human” users to solve a CAPTCHA for them to see your full email address in plain text. Here’s a demo:
Spambox.us will let you generate temporary email addresses that can last up to an year. Any email message that’s sent to this temporary address will be auto-forwarded to your main Inbox and, if you think you are getting spammed, you can simply cancel your Spambox address.
Then you have whspr.me that turns email address into a web forms. Anyone can reach you over email by simply writing the message in this form. You can delete the email form manually anytime or set it to auto-expire after ‘n’ days.
And finally the most common method – you can consider creating an image of your email address using labelgen (or even Facebook). Most spam bots won’t notice your email address while humans can easily read the address without having to solve complex CAPTCHAs.
Email Cover can also help you mask your precious email address but, unlike regular email to image converters, it doesn't use straight fonts so your address will possibly stay protected from spammers who are smart enough to perform OCR. See example:
Email Cover can also help you mask your precious email address but, unlike regular email to image converters, it doesn't use straight fonts so your address will possibly stay protected from spammers who are smart enough to perform OCR. See example:
Top 7 Social Share Buttons You Just Got To Love
Let’s start today’s post with a simple question – why do you think or why do we use social share buttons on our blog? To me, I have the social share button here on my blog because I want my readers to share my content to their friends after reading – basically, for more exposure.
Now a day’s – every blog, forum and website owners uses social share button on their platforms. A blogger or a website owner that doesn't have a share button is not ready for exposure (fact).
In the Wordpress arsenal, we have a lot of social share buttons which are just so awesome but I have selected just 7 awesome plugins that will make your blog sharing experience worthwhile.
Top 7 Social Share Buttons You Just Got To Love
Now without wasting any of our time, let’s start with the show
Share this: This plugin is one awesome social plugin that as all it takes to be on my number one spot. Recently the developer of the plugin added some cool feature to make it more interesting – and some of the features are;
√ It has the ability to track people that copy your blog post
√ It protects your blog from those lazy bloggers who only copy from other blogs and paste on theirs
√ You get to know how many people share your post and how many people viewed the links.
√ It helps you improve your social media strategy and lots more…
I am using the plugin on my blog and I’ll recommend it to any blogger running a wordpress blog
You can download sharethis plugin here
Sexy bookmark: Also known as Shareaholic is one of the most attractive sharing plugins I have ever seen. It can do almost all what sharethis plugin can do and can even do more. Since the last update, they have added some cool feature to their plugin to make it more active and relevant. Most of the things added are;
√ You have the ability to show related post and recommendation post without installing yet another plugin
√ You can choose the URL shortner you want to use yourself
√ You can track down your social share performance with their simple to understand social analytic tool
The shareaholic plugin can do all that and more 
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You can download Sexy Bookmark plugin here
Dig dig: Is a floating share button that helps your reader better share your content. But how does this actually works? Let me just show you … if you check the left side of this blog, you will see a floating share button that looks attractive, right? The name of the floating share button is called Dig Dig.
… if you check the left side of this blog, you will see a floating share button that looks attractive, right? The name of the floating share button is called Dig Dig.
This plugin is indeed effective – no wonder thousands of blogger use it…
You can download Dig Dig plugin here
Metro style social widget: What this widget simply does is, it allows your readers and fans to subscribe to your fan page easily without them living your blog. Incase you are wondering how it looks, take a peek at my side bar and you’ll see it.
In case you do not like hand coding, this simple light widget is the best for you to increase your fan page.
You can download Metro Style Social Widget here
Flare: Many bloggers are using this share button because it has some unique features that make you wanna love it. Among the wonderful things it can do are;
√ It scores blog posts (from 1 – 100) based on the presence your blog gets socially.
√ It gives you the option to place the widget anywhere you feel like on your blog
√ It also gives you the choice to choose where you want it to appear on your post or page. And it does even more…
You can download Flare Plugin here
Add this: This plugin is one of the oldest and also among the popular social plugins around. It has some good features which I know you’ll like and some of the features are stated below;
√ You’ll know who and who are sharing your contents
√ You’ll know the services they are using to share your content
√ You will also know the content shared the most. And it does even more…
No wonder it is been used by millions of people all round platforms…
You can download AddThis Plugin here
Sketch bookmark: For those who want their mobile users to share their contents, this social share feels perfect for it. The plugin is simple and also beautify your blog because the icons are handmade drawing. It gives you the option to choose which icon to display. It also gives you the option to choose how large you want the icons to display.
You can download Sketch Bookmark Here
The above plugins are my top 7 social share plugins for the year 2013. Hope you find the plugins interesting enough.
