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Hey there. We'll be taking a look at how to enable form security with Google reCAPTCHA

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on your website.

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ReCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps to protect your website from spam and bot abuse.

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It does this while letting human users pass through with ease.

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If you've ever spent any time online, you've most likely had to use reCAPTCHA to verify you're not a bot.

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Before you set up reCAPTCHA, be sure you have already connected your live domain to your website.

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If you don't, then you will need to go through this process again once your domain has been connected.

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So here in the admin area, let's go to settings,

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general settings,

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and then we'll head into the Integrations tab.

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If we scroll down just a bit, we'll see the reCAPTCHA section.

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Setting up reCAPTCHA is a very simple process that should only take a couple of minutes.

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However, Google does have a tendency to regularly update their user interface.

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If what you'll be seeing in this video doesn't match what you're seeing on your end from Google, be sure to click the learn more link here.

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This will take you to our up to date written documentation, which includes screenshots, and we'll walk you through exactly how to set up reCAPTCHA.

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Even if this video has become outdated when you're watching it, our documentation

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will always be kept current.

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Okay. So the first thing we'll wanna do is head on over to google.com/

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recaptcha/admin/create,

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and make sure that you're signed in to your Google account that you use for your website or your business.

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So now that we're here, the first thing we want to do is enter a label name.

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In this case, we'll just enter the name of our website.

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Then for reCAPTCHA type, we'll select reCAPTCHA version 2, and the I'm not a robot checkbox option should automatically be selected.

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Next, we'll need to enter the domain name of our website, and you'll wanna put the domain name in without

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www.at

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the beginning.

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So in this case, we'll be entering set up my website.com

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since that's the domain that we have for our website.

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Next, we'll accept the reCAPTCHA terms of service, and if you want to receive alerts from Google if they happen to detect problems with your site, such as misconfigurations

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or an increase in suspicious traffic, you can leave this last option, send alerts to owners, checked.

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Otherwise, if you don't wanna receive those alerts from Google, you can uncheck this box.

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And finally, we'll click Submit.

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We can now see that our website has been registered with reCAPTCHA, and we've been provided with a site key and a secret key.

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So we'll copy the site key,

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and we'll paste it into our website's admin area where we're prompted for the site key.

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Next, we'll copy the secret key,

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and we'll paste the secret key again where we're prompted to in the admin area.

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So we'll save these changes,

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and if we go to the contact page on our website and refresh it, you can see we now have the I'm not a robot recaptcha checkbox on our contact form.

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We can click it to prove we're not a bot, and this will definitely help to limit some of the spam messages and form submissions you may receive on your website.

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If you have questions, please reach out at any time.

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Our team is always happy to help and support you.