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.
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