_marketo_comments hidden field

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

Does this hidden field still stop bots from filling out forms? 

We have an embedded form with this field enabled but we still receive a regular amount of bot spam. (i just wrote "bot spam")

Our form is embedded on a non-marketo landing page - could this be the issue? Or does this method just not work particularly well?

[Anonymous]

Hello Nicholas,

Yes, the _marketo_comments field is part of the protection against bot form fillouts.  However, like most things bot- or spam-related, the people who do such things will find a way around our current protection scheme as well.  It ebbs and flows.

I would suggest either creating another field and make it hidden on your forms, or look for something common in the bogus leads being created.  Then, set up a trigger campaign to delete leads that fill out that field or have that common bogus

For Marketo's part, we are already working on additional protection, it's an ongoing process!

 

[Homero_Cavazos1]

Is there a way to pair it with a label element? As it is, ADA compliant tests are raising this as an issue for missing label.

[Anonymous]

You can resource to an additional protection. Most validation is executed by JavaScript on browser side.
Spam bots often bypass all JavaScript validation.

The simple soulution is verifying whether JavaScrit is enabled, redirecting to an invalid URL if not, effectively throiwng HTTP 404 (paeg not found).  Real humans would re-enable if really interested.

Preventing Spambots from form fillouts

http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000Kzd2CAC