Thursday, March 10, 2011

How to know if a web site is legitimate?

• The site has to have good information from a reliable source. Is the source reliable? Does the person writing the document/web site have the education necessary to speak about this topic?
• What are the credentials?
• Who’s behind the web site? What other organizations does that person refer to? Who do they say is behind it? Is there a group of people? Who are they?
• What is the URL? What is the root directory?
• References – follow the links. Are they legitimate?
• Check “About Us” and “Contact Us”.
• Google the names and organizations
• How current Is the website? – Check the date, if there is one.

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