I am not affiliated with Project Honey Pot. However, I have found this free service very useful and innovative. Here is how you can use a honeypot to protect your website or blog.
One way to stop spammers is to join Project Honey Pot
If you do not have email mx addresses or a website to install a honey pot, you can still participate. Just copy and paste the links below into the text or html section of your website or blog.
Add Links to Existing Web Pages
The URL of your honey pot page for this domain is:
http://anarcade.com/admin.php
In order to begin catching harvesters you should link as many of your existing pages as possible to the new honey pot page. Ideally, you should include links that harvesters can find, but humans are unlikely to visit.
To help you with that, here are several suggestions for links to your honey pot page that will catch many harvesters, but not seen by most human visitors to your site. You should include one or more of the lines of HTML like the examples below in as many of your actual pages as you can. You can mix and match different link formats on different pages in order to fool even clever harvesters.
DO NOT FOLLOW THE LINKS BELOW. THEY ARE HONEY POT LINKS. ONLY COPY THIS INTO THE HTML OF YOUR BLOG TO HELP CAPTURE SPAMMERS AND HARVESTERS. COPY AND PASTE ONE OR MORE OF THESE LINKS IN THE HTML OF YOUR BLOG. SPAM HARVESTERS WILL FOLLOW THE LINKS AND GET BANNED FROM WEBSITES USING PROJECT HONEY POT. THESE LINKS WILL BE INVISIBLE TO USERS.
<a href=”http://anarcade.com/admin.php”><!– illfated-hurt –></a> <a href=”http://anarcade.com/admin.php”><img src=”illfated-hurt.gif” height=”1″ width=”1″ border=”0″></a>
<a href=”http://anarcade.com/admin.php” style=”display: none;”>illfated-hurt</a><div style=”display: none;”>
<a href=”http://anarcade.com/admin.php”>illfated-hurt</a></div> <a href=”http://anarcade.com/admin.php”></a> <!– <a href=”http://anarcade.com/admin.php”>illfated-hurt</a> –> <div style=”position: absolute; top: -250px; left: -250px;”>
<a href=”http://anarcade.com/admin.php”>illfated-hurt</a></div> <a href=”http://anarcade.com/admin.php”><span style=”display: none;”>illfated-hurt</span></a>
<a href=”http://anarcade.com/admin.php”><div style=”height: 0px; width: 0px;”></div></a>
These links will be invisible to people visiting your site but robots used by harvesters will follow the links and get trapped. Please do not visit the links above. They are honeypots and will get your IP banned from many websites.
Typically, our users insert one or more of the above lines of HTML somewhere on their existing web pages. Again, try different link formats on different pages to ensure you catch as many harvesters as possible. You’re welcome to experiment with other ways of including links from your website’s regular pages to your honey pot page.
You may also want to protect the real email addresses contained on your website. For information on how to keep spambots from harvesting your real email visitors