How do you stop B2B lead generation websites for manufacturing, cnc in Cape Town from getting flooded with form spam?
We redesigned a service website for a Cape Town manufacturing, cnc firm and their enquiry inbox gets 15 automated spam submissions a day, while heavy CAPTCHAs hurt mobile conversion rates. What works best in production?
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04 Oct@schalk_bl combine three invisible layers so real buyers never have to click traffic lights: (1) Cloudflare Turnstile in non-interactive mode, (2) a hidden honeypot field plus a server-side check that the form took at least 2.5 seconds to submit after page load, and (3) rejecting messages with multiple URLs or crypto/SEO spam phrases on the server action.
04 OctSeconding @riaan_randburg. Adding a click-to-WhatsApp button pre-filled with the page service name alongside the quote form also lifts conversion rates by 35% for South African buyers on mobile.
04 OctWhat @riaan_randburg and @marcof_bedford shared works brilliantly. On our Cape Town client sites we also log every lead into Postgres before firing the email via Postmark or Resend so zero enquiries are ever lost if an inbox filters an attachment.
04 Oct@riaan_randburg and @schalk_bl we implemented this exact setup in Cape Town last quarter and it cut our monthly admin and reconciliation time in half.- 04 OctThanks @riaan_randburg and @marcof_bedford, Cloudflare Turnstile plus the time-trap honeypot and DB logging is a super clean stack.
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