Public profiles are a magnet for scrapers. Automated bots crawl sites looking for anything that looks like a phone number or email address, then feed it into spam lists, robocall databases, and sketchy "lead" resellers. If your number is sitting in your profile, it's only a matter of time before it ends up somewhere you never agreed to.
On Jobiteer, that information never makes it into your public profile in the first place.
Removed before it's saved, not just hidden
A lot of sites hide contact info on the screen but still send the full text behind the scenes. That stops a casual visitor, but not a bot, which reads the underlying data directly.
Jobiteer works differently. When a bio is saved, phone numbers, email addresses, and street addresses are stripped out on our servers before the text is ever stored. The original contact details are never kept in your profile, so there's nothing for a scraper to find, whether it's reading the page or querying the data behind it.
The same protection applies to job descriptions that homeowners write.
Why that matters to you
- Less spam. Your number and inbox aren't exposed to bots crawling public pages.
- Fewer scam calls. Contact info that can't be scraped can't end up on call lists.
- You choose who gets your details. Your number goes to the homeowners you're actually working with, when you decide to share it.
How homeowners reach you instead
Homeowners contact you through Jobiteer itself: by messaging you on a job, or by requesting you by name from the contractor directory. Once you're talking with a real customer in a conversation, you can share your phone number or email there whenever you're ready. The protection is about keeping your details off your public page, not about stopping you from giving them to people you choose.
What to keep in mind
Because contact details are removed automatically, you can't use your bio to list your phone number or email. Put your energy into what makes homeowners want to reach out: your experience, your specialties, the kind of work you do best. Your reviews and completed jobs help too.
The filter catches the ways contact info is normally written. No automated filter catches every possible creative spelling, so it's still a good idea not to try to work your details into your bio in other ways. If it's in your bio, assume it's public.
Privacy by default
You shouldn't have to choose between being visible to customers and being exposed to spammers. On Jobiteer, your profile works for you, and your contact details stay yours until you decide to share them.