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Ever came across a website and had a fishy feeling it was not up-to-date?

Check the copyright year. If the webmaster can't be bothered to update that, then chances are the content on display is stale.

Is a forum overrun by spam postings? If the moderator is asleep at the mouse the Russians are having a field day... Check out Tipd...

Sort a forum members page by joining date or number of posts and you will quickly find out whether it is worth joining a community of real active people or just ghosts...

What about original content? How can you spot if they are recycling someone else's material? Article marketing was in vogue to spread copies of the same text as long as the author's signature and extra links in the resource box remained intact. The net result is that you might read in good faith something published yesterday when it fact the original was written 6 months ago! You can get to the bottom of this practice with copyscape

Often the article you are trying to read is split in half across a batch of advertisements. For a start it is annoying to say the least but it also tells you the webmaster cares more about advertising revenue than give you some content you can make sense of and use. By then you have clicked the back button already...

Interesting blogs would release a new post at least once a week and advertise it on twitter also. You can subscribe to their RSS feed - saving you having to poll their page just in case something new showed up there. Or you can subscribe to receive new posts via email.

Some sites offer software to download but as you go about to bring the file to your computer you find out the option to obtain a license has been disabled. What a waste of your time.

Ever downloaded an e-book only to find out it was written seven years ago? It happened to me and fortunately I got my money back through PayPal.

There are more obsolete websites out there than you can click your mouse at. It's like webmasters are too ashamed to admit the site was a flop and are reluctant to take it down (the hosting companies don't mind as long as your keep paying). Better still, they could redirect the traffic to what we are really looking for - but they don't care...

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