Adorable Baby Websites in Minutes - Simple to use and fun!

Many of you enjoy posting the link to your TotSite in your signature files in forums, blogs and other public places. Unfortunately this increases the likelihood that random “spam bots” can find your site and then start signing your guestbook with unwanted messages. We already have a robust spam detection tool in place but it did not stop those pesky “empty” guestbook entries. (If you do find spam on your guestbook please be sure to click the “report as spam” button so we can continually improve our anti-spam tool.)

To combat those random empty messages we added a great new feature to the guestbook section of your TotSite yesterday. In addition to our spam detection tools we now have an image verification check. It looks something like this:

People who sign your guestbook are required to enter the text in the image before their message is saved. You might have seen something similar on many popular websites such as MSN, Yahoo and Google. Each time the picture loads a new random set of letters are displayed making it very difficult (in not impossible) for “spam bots” to guess the right answer. Now you are ensured that a human is the one signing your guestbook and not some random computer!Your privacy is very important to us. Thank you to those who recommended adding this feature to our growing set of tools designed to help you create a fun, and easy to use baby website!

Brian

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