How ReCaptcha Helps You Maintain a Healthy Mailing List

Kayla M.

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What is reCAPTCHA and how does it help you? Kajabi helps you build and maintain a healthy mailing list consisting of high-quality contacts by helping you validate your form submissions. Learn how reCAPTCHA helps you maintain a healthy contact list when a Form is submitted on your site.


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What is reCAPTCHA?

To protect your website from spam and abuse, a Google service, reCAPTCHA, ensures that each contact submitted to your site is reputable. 

When it comes to protecting your site and designing a frictionless, user-friendly interface we do not take it lightly.

That is why Kajabi has implemented reCAPTCHA to protect your site with the least obtrusive type available.

You may recognize reCAPTCHA from various sites that prompt you to perform the task of selecting images of crosswalks, traffic lights, or cars.

Rather than the manual approach of checking boxes with certain images in them, the invisible reCAPTCHA is only invoked when it detects potentially malicious traffic

Learn more about reCAPTCHA.


How does reCAPTCHA help your business?

Forms on Kajabi are set to use double opt-in by default, but if you choose to disable double opt-in, your Forms may be at risk for disreputable submissions. 

What is a double opt-in? Learn more.

This is where reCAPTCHA can help.

With reCAPTCHA, Forms that do not use double opt-in will still be protected by preventing bots or other potentially malicious individuals from completing your Forms.

With Kajabi, you can feel confident in knowing that we have your back so that you can continue to share the value you have to offer with your healthy mailing list. 


How to enable reCAPTCHA

  • Open the Settings tab from your Dashboard.
  • Click Form Settings under the Site Settings section.
  • Then, click Add reCAPTCHA to single opt-in forms to enable.
  • Confirm the prompt to complete the process:

And that’s how you can enable reCAPTCHA!

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