Elementor: how to avoid spam in your website forms
Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 8:18 am
Adding reCAPTCHA in Elementor is an important task when it comes to improving the security of your website forms.
If you are not familiar with reCAPTCHA, in this article I want to teach you exactly several things that will help you better understand how this security system works, which one to choose from among its available versions, and how to implement the best of these versions in Elementor.
To sum up, here you will learn:
What is reCAPTCHA.
What types of reCAPTCHA exist?
Why choose reCAPTCHA v3 .
Is Google reCAPTCHA free?
How to add reCAPTCHA v3 in Elementor to your forms.
If you prefer the image and voice format, here is a video from my YouTube channel in which I also talk about all this.
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What is reCAPTCHA?
What types (versions) of reCAPTCHA exist?
Why use reCAPTCHA v3 on your website
Is Google reCAPTCHA free?
How to integrate reCAPTCHA v3 in Elementor to your forms
Create Google reCAPTCHA v3 for your domain
Setting up keys in Elementor settings
Adding the reCAPTCHA v3 field to your Elementor forms
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a Google security system that prevents cyprus telegram data from being sent from any form implemented on your business's website (contact forms, quote request forms, or similar forms).
Specifically, reCAPTCHA addresses the type of spam that is sent by bots. In other words, thanks to this security system, it will be possible to identify whether the person sending information through the forms on your website is a human user or an automated bot.
This way, you will avoid receiving all those annoying emails with unsolicited advertising that offer you various items such as Viagra pills or payment for SEO links of dubious quality.
What types (versions) of reCAPTCHA exist?
At the time I am writing this article there are (or have been) up to 3 different versions of reCAPTCHA.
We have reCAPTCHA v1 (the original version) which required the user to enter an automatically generated word or text. This version is no longer used today because it was eventually deemed too easy for bots to bypass.
reCAPTCHA v2 represented a further step forward in this antispam security system, requiring the user to perform a somewhat more complex type of interaction.
Examples of systems created with reCAPTCHA v2 are those filters in which you have to click on certain images that are indicated to you or the typical "I am not a robot" checkbox.
Finally, there is also reCAPTCHA v3 , the most updated and modern version of reCAPTCHA, which protects the forms on your website without the user having to perform any additional interaction like the ones above (which, let's be honest, can be a tremendous hassle for those of us who are humans and not bots).
Basically, reCAPTCHA v3 evaluates the user who is submitting the contact form based on their online behavior and history , so it can detect whether the person submitting the form is a bot or not.
If you are not familiar with reCAPTCHA, in this article I want to teach you exactly several things that will help you better understand how this security system works, which one to choose from among its available versions, and how to implement the best of these versions in Elementor.
To sum up, here you will learn:
What is reCAPTCHA.
What types of reCAPTCHA exist?
Why choose reCAPTCHA v3 .
Is Google reCAPTCHA free?
How to add reCAPTCHA v3 in Elementor to your forms.
If you prefer the image and voice format, here is a video from my YouTube channel in which I also talk about all this.
Table of Contents [ Hide ]
What is reCAPTCHA?
What types (versions) of reCAPTCHA exist?
Why use reCAPTCHA v3 on your website
Is Google reCAPTCHA free?
How to integrate reCAPTCHA v3 in Elementor to your forms
Create Google reCAPTCHA v3 for your domain
Setting up keys in Elementor settings
Adding the reCAPTCHA v3 field to your Elementor forms
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a Google security system that prevents cyprus telegram data from being sent from any form implemented on your business's website (contact forms, quote request forms, or similar forms).
Specifically, reCAPTCHA addresses the type of spam that is sent by bots. In other words, thanks to this security system, it will be possible to identify whether the person sending information through the forms on your website is a human user or an automated bot.
This way, you will avoid receiving all those annoying emails with unsolicited advertising that offer you various items such as Viagra pills or payment for SEO links of dubious quality.
What types (versions) of reCAPTCHA exist?
At the time I am writing this article there are (or have been) up to 3 different versions of reCAPTCHA.
We have reCAPTCHA v1 (the original version) which required the user to enter an automatically generated word or text. This version is no longer used today because it was eventually deemed too easy for bots to bypass.
reCAPTCHA v2 represented a further step forward in this antispam security system, requiring the user to perform a somewhat more complex type of interaction.
Examples of systems created with reCAPTCHA v2 are those filters in which you have to click on certain images that are indicated to you or the typical "I am not a robot" checkbox.
Finally, there is also reCAPTCHA v3 , the most updated and modern version of reCAPTCHA, which protects the forms on your website without the user having to perform any additional interaction like the ones above (which, let's be honest, can be a tremendous hassle for those of us who are humans and not bots).
Basically, reCAPTCHA v3 evaluates the user who is submitting the contact form based on their online behavior and history , so it can detect whether the person submitting the form is a bot or not.