The answer to this question for some blogging platforms might come in the form of a "contact form" plugin, but what if your particular platform does not support one, or the contact form for whatever reason does not work as you intended?. For me, the answer lay in simply re-writing my email in a non-email format (e.g. myname[at]mydomain.com) — until I found Emailcloaker, that is.

Emailcloaker consists of a freeware program that will generate html code to display your (clickable) email address in a cloaked format unreadable by the spiders. Clicking on this link will open a contact form hosted by Xinbox.com (the makers of Emailcloaker) that is ad-free and offers a number of customizable features such as a verification code and the ability to send an attachment up to 500k. Other options you can choose from are whether or not you want to show your name and/or email in the web form, whether or not to require the sender to enter an email address, and whether or not to add a label (such as “NOSPAM”) to the subject of all emails sent from the service. To see this email form in action, click here.