Here are two simple steps to significantly reduce you exposure to spammers.

Google Your Email

You should already know not to post your email in any comment, on any forum, or have it as a part of any contact page. If you really need to submit your email in a public place you should set up a disposable account that can be discarded once overloaded with spam. See Fake Address – Why Everyone Should Have At Least One.

If you can find your email on google so can spammers. So google your email and find the places yours is exposed then remove them. It may take a few days or weeks for google to pick up the changes but once its done you’ll be in the clear.

Don’t Tweet Your Email

If you want to share your email with someone make sure it’s via DM not @ messages. Spammers have caught on that they can use search.twitter.com to find emails. Although twitter has taken a step in the right direction by blocking email results from searches such as “@gmail.com” it’s still easy to find thousands of emails with twitter search. Have a look at this search to see how many people are tweeting their emails every few minutes.

Here’s to a clean inbox.