i am starting a classifieds page on my website. my concern is sellers would be bombarded with spam. any ideas on how to reduce the number of spam emails sent to sellers on a non membership classifieds site?

Don't put email adresses public.

so you recommend having a public and a private side?

How would you recommend buyers contact sellers?

With a form and a server side script.

chris, can u explain a little more? hes a little confused. do u have a sample script?

Would using a nofollow tag around the email link work too?

Originally Posted by watchitmister

Would using a nofollow tag around the email link work too?

a rel="nofollow" attribute? No.

Spam bots wouldn't honour such an instruction even if it did apply to them.

Originally Posted by watchitmister

chris, can u explain a little more? hes a little confused. do u have a sample script?

In what code?

He is doing the page in PHP...