If you have every looked for free resources on the internet then you have came across dozens of sites advertising FREE Resources. If you have spent even five minutes on some of these sites you will see all kind of resources listed in about every area you can imagine. 

What happens next is the biggest disappointment of all. You begin to read the site information and get excited because you have been searching for just that resource and think at last you have found the perfect site. As you read more and then click the link to take you to the resource you are looking for you are presented with several options, read about, rate it, comment on it and then the most disappointing one of all a link to take you to the site where the resource is suppose to be.

Well wait a minute I thought the resource was here, after all the sites says Free Resources, and they would not say that if the resources were not on this site. How wrong you are. Many sites claiming to offer free resources offer nothing more than links to other websites that may or may not have the resource you are looking for. This is an all too common problem we are seeing more and more on the web.

If a site offers free resource then the resources should be on that site, not a link to another site that may have the resource or may just lead you to another site. These sites that offer these ghost resources should be called resource link sites because that is just what they are. They do not offer free resources merely links to where you may find the resources you have searched for.

Who is to blame for leading you to such a site, well you cannot blame the search engine as most if not all do not read the content, merely the keywords. Then they look for the keywords within the content and it they are there then that site will get list higher within the search engine.

The site owner is the one to blame for shamelessly misleading you to visit his/her site that offers merely links instead of the free resources as they say they offer.  We should email the webmaster of these sites and comment on the shameless way that they mislead the public into thinking that they offer free resources. Perhaps if they get enough email stating this all to obvious fact they will either offer the resource or reword the site to say what they truly offer are links to resources. 

By the same token if you find a site that does offer real free resources and not misleading links, praise that site and let them know they are doing a great job and that you appreciate the service they offer you at no cost. You can thank them also by spreading the word, put a link to that site on yours, and/or donate to the site in whatever manner you can. Be it articles, resources or a monetary donation. If you found a good help keep it going.

By RebelRose

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