Website Dates

Dates when looking at websitesThere are just over 9 billion pages on the Internet, so what clues can you pick up from just checking the date of a site?
Most websites should show their date, which is usually found at the top or bottom of the home page.
If this date is 2011 then you will be fine, this changes to 2012 on the 1st Jan. 2012.
Any site without a date, your advised to leave well alone.
And beyond after a date is not good enough, again your advised to leave well alone.
Do not use a site that has a singular date of 2010 or less.
A date of say, 2007-2011 is fine.
There are many reasons for following these simple guidelines, a lot of old pages are left on the Internet in the hope you might find them and spend some money on them.
This is a favorite trick of the sellers so beware.
If a website is showing the latest date, it shows that the person running that site is keeping it up to date and cares what the public see on their website.
If the website you are looking at is brand new then put in a Google Search, if anyone has found something that is not quite right, someone will have done a review about it that you can read.
Remember there are no garbage men on the Internet, if an owner doesn't take his old pages off, we are left with all the rubbish.
There are so many of these old pages around that sometimes it can feel like information overload, all of us have looked at something of interest on the Internet only to then complicate matters for ourselves by further clicking away and getting nowhere.
This can easily take you away from what you were trying to look up in the first place, sometimes the road to choose is the least complicated one, and often it's the least complicated one that gives you the best result.
Using a Search Engine is the sensible way to check out a website, make sure you read the reviews about that site.
Try looking at more than one review and take note it is quite common for reviews that are written by the very people who are after your money, so take care.
After all this doom and gloom, may I just brighten things up by saying, that there are plenty of good honest websites on the Internet, once found you can bookmark them so you can easily return at a later date for anything new they may have added.
May I wish you all happy Browsing, Mark.

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