Guides
Stop contact form spam: practical guides
How spam gets into website forms, how to stop bots and fake leads without annoying real people, and what works on WordPress, Contact Form 7, WPForms and Elementor. Written by the team that installs form protection for a living.
Stop spam
- The best contact form spam protection for websitesCAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA, Turnstile, honeypots, spam filters or server-side protection: which is the best anti-spam and bot protection for your website forms?
- How to stop contact form spamHow to stop contact form spam and junk messages from your website: 9 methods that work, in the right order, without annoying real customers with puzzles.
- Secure contact form for your websiteWebsite contact form security beyond spam: stop email header injection, code in messages, unsafe uploads and data leaks. A checklist for professional websites.
- How to stop thousands of spam form submissionsYour contact form is sending hundreds or thousands of spam messages. Emergency steps to stop the flood today, then the fixes that keep it from coming back.
- Why am I getting so much spam from my contact form?Why contact forms attract so much spam, how to detect spam submissions, and how to tell bots from paid spammers, so you can pick the right fix.
Bots and fake leads
- How to stop bots from submitting your contact formHow to block spam bots from your website forms and prevent automated submissions: the checks that stop bots, why they work, and how to add them to any form.
- How to stop fake leads from your websiteFake contact form submissions waste sales time and ruin your figures. How to stop fake leads and spam leads from a business website, and keep the real ones.
CAPTCHA and alternatives
- CAPTCHA and accessibility: who gets locked out of your contact formW3C says every type of CAPTCHA is unsolvable for some people with disabilities. Who is affected, why the audio option fails, and accessible ways to stop spam.
- The best alternatives to CAPTCHA for contact formsHow to protect a contact form without CAPTCHA: invisible spam protection that stops bots without puzzles, and what to use instead of reCAPTCHA.
- Is CAPTCHA costing you customers? What the research actually showsIndependent studies show people fail image CAPTCHAs up to 1 in 4 times and many give up, while bots solve them faster. The numbers, with sources.
- Why spam still gets past your CAPTCHA: solving services and AIGetting spam even with reCAPTCHA? Research shows bots and paid CAPTCHA-solving services get past it cheaply. How it works, and what actually stops it.
- reCAPTCHA vs Turnstile vs spam protectionCAPTCHA vs contact form spam protection, and Cloudflare Turnstile vs reCAPTCHA: how each works, what it stops, what it costs visitors, and which to choose.
- Honeypot vs CAPTCHA for contact formsHoneypot vs CAPTCHA for contact forms: how each works, what each misses, accessibility and privacy, and why the best forms combine a honeypot with other checks.
- How CAPTCHA works, and why bots now beat itHow CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 and hCaptcha work, what the “I’m not a robot” box checks, and why research shows bots now solve them better than people.
- How to check if your CAPTCHA is losing you enquiriesA simple test any business can run: measure form starts against sends, read your CAPTCHA’s own numbers, then compare with invisible protection.
WordPress
- The best spam protection for WordPress contact formsThe best anti-spam contact form plugin setups for WordPress: honeypots, tokens, Turnstile, reCAPTCHA and Akismet compared, with the setup we recommend.
- Contact Form 7 spam protectionHow to stop spam from Contact Form 7: add a honeypot, use the reCAPTCHA or Akismet integrations, block links, and protect CF7 without annoying visitors.
- Elementor form spam protectionHow to protect Elementor forms and Elementor contact forms from spam: add the honeypot field, reCAPTCHA, content filtering and server-side checks.
- How to stop contact form spam in WordPressWordPress contact form spam protection step by step: block spam and bot submissions, stop fake leads from WordPress forms, and keep your form secure.
- WPForms spam protectionHow to stop spam in WPForms: use its anti-spam protection, add Turnstile or reCAPTCHA, filter by content, and find out why spam still gets through.
For businesses
- Contact form protection for agencies and freelancersContact form spam protection for web agencies and freelancers: protect every client website, stop "the form is broken" calls, and offer it as a service.
- Contact form spam protection for businessesProtect your business website from form spam: an anti-spam solution that keeps every real lead, blocks bots and fake leads, and keeps data on your server.
- Contact form spam protection for ecommerce websitesOnline shops get spam through contact, support and product enquiry forms. How to protect ecommerce contact forms without blocking real shoppers.
- Contact form protection for small businessesWebsite spam protection for small businesses without an IT team: simple steps to stop contact form spam, what to check, and when a one-time setup is worth it.
Services and pricing
- Professional contact form installationContact form setup and spam protection, installed for you: a secure contact form designed for your website, or protection added to the forms you have.
- Contact form spam protection pricingWhat contact form spam protection costs: free plugins, CAPTCHA services, monthly subscriptions and one-time installation compared, and how our pricing works.
- Contact form spam protection serviceManaged contact form spam protection: we check your website, install anti-spam protection on your own server and test it. Spam-proof forms, one fixed price.