Qualtrics - Tips For Dealing With Spam
Spam can occur within hours after posting your Survey on Facebook or to a website. Here are some tips to avoid it.
Security Settings in Survey Options To Help With Fraud/Spam
Prevent Multiple Submissions
- Go to Survey Options
- Click on Security
- Toggle the Prevent multiple submissions option to on.
Bot Detection
- Go to Survey Options
- Click on Security
- Toggle the Bot detection option to on.
For this to work on the survey, the survey must be open on the respondent's browser for a few seconds in order to record the score; otherwise, the survey will not record a score.
Prevent Indexing
- Go to Survey Options
- Click on Security
- Toggle the Prevent indexing option to on.
Add a Captcha Verification Question
Captcha Verification is one way to ensure that only humans are trying to take the survey. These are often a box of numbers and letters you need to retype or a photo with multiple parts you need to click on. To add a Captcha Verification create a question and select the Captcha Verification question type. You can place this question at the beginning or end of your survey.