four tips to reduce spam signups on your website
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Four tips to reduce spam sign- ups on your website
Submitted by : Jodie Baldwin
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Introduction
● The process of registration holds great importance for businesses and users.
● Sign-up process provides precious user data which helps businesses to understand user base.
● But now a days this registration process has become the victim of spam signups which cause damage to database.
Reference : http://letsgetsocial.puzl.com/letsgetsocial-com
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What does it mean by spam signups?
● In the process of spamming, the database is filled with falsify data by bots or automated programs.
● These bots are specially programmed to fill garbage data in registration forms directly to the server.
● Garbage data in database directly impacts your marketing decisions.
Reference : http://letsgetsocial.puzl.com/letsgetsocial-com
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How spam signups affects business?
● Data is the key to understand user base but with spam signups, database is filled with falsify data.
● Because of this fake data, marketers are not able to find out who is their real audience and what the audience is expecting.
● Users are not able to receive the experience that they are expecting thus leads to frustration.
Reference : http://letsgetsocial.puzl.com/letsgetsocial-com
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How to reduce spam signups?
● With Captcha, users are asked to decode the distorted characters.
● Captcha are offered in several patterns which can easily be understood by humans but not by bots.
● The technique is not that effective though as several decaptcha techniques have been developed by spammers.
1. CAPTCHA :
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● Another approach of reducing spam signups is by verifying human identity by mobile number.
● In this process, a code is sent to user mobile number which is again need to be submitted on sign up form to complete the sign-up process.
● Thought the process is effective but this method takes lot’s of time thus decreasing ease of sign-up.
How to reduce spam signups?
2. Mobile Number Verification :
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How to reduce spam signups?
● With social login, users can sign in to a website with their social ID credentials.
● It is very difficult for bots to have complete social media profile for social login thus helpful in reducing spam signups.
● Apart from this, offering social login, simplifies the process of sign-up.
3. Offer Social Login :
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How to reduce spam signups?
4. Honey Pot :
● Another smart way to get rid of spam signups is by ‘Honey Pot’.
● It is a field in sign up form which is only visible to bots, not to humans.
● Whenever a bot fills this honey pot field, you get a notification thus you can reject the sign-up request.
● The process is really very efficient but requires some serious developer effort.
Reference : http://letsgetsocial.puzl.com/letsgetsocial-com
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Conclusion
Registration process can easily become the victim of spam signups. In order to make efficient business strategies it is essential to keep sign-up process away from this kind of spamming.
To know more read the complete article here : How to stop spam signups dead in their tracks
Reference : http://letsgetsocial.puzl.com/letsgetsocial-com
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