In response to my article on search engine mysteries in which I said that the essential thing is to get the right information, I mainly receive the same question, asking me how to get the right info on the Net.

So, I decided to write a few words about it to offer a bit of an answer. To get the right information steadily is not easy nor quick. As with everything, there are several ways, and it is necessary to set up a working system. I am going to describe my way.

First, what I consider the right information:

The right information, as I see it, is a piece of information that is true, accurate, complete, reliable and timely, ie I can use it to build something on it before my competition can. The right information MUST have all the above attributes but sometimes you get the right hint, which is the same valuable, but it is up to you to find out more or develop it to make it the right information.

I have a couple of bad features in my character, namely I am mean, it is very difficult for me to part with my money, and the other one is that I have problems to trust anyone without checking everything personally.

These two in fact are very good protectors on the Net. I do not regret any single case I did not buy something and the same it is with trusting someone or something. Whenever I did not trust anything or anyone, it was right.

The thing is that even established authorities and ´gurus´ are not a hundred per cent right in everything and sometimes spread a wrong piece of information not on purpose, of course, but simply because they trust themselves so much, even think that they know everything already, that they simply make hasty, wrong conclusions.

I myself check and test everything to see whether it works and how well it works and am trying to learn something new every day. Yet I make mistakes, and once you start to think you know everything, you start making costly mistakes.

When you are on the Net long enough and go the way of reading and testing everything you come across, you will very soon know to whom you can trust, how much and when.

There is a lot of useless panic over a scam sometimes that it is not a scam, and sometimes an obvious scam is promoted and marketed like a real thing.

So how to evaluate the information:

Read and test everything you manage to get into the picture and learn how to feel different situations and how to judge the individual pieces of information and persons from whom you get it and be very careful about partial information and wrong conclusions.

Also, in connection with scams: it is vital to differentiate between a scam and inexperience of a company where the expenses simply grow beyond the powers of the people involved.

Why? You may ask now because the results may be the same for you - loss of money, time, efforts and illusions.

The answer is simple: because there are different signs pointing to it which may warn you in time. While some of the scams are sometimes very difficult to anticipate, when it is about expenses, you can say right from the start. The signs are obvious, and you can spare yourself.

There are several ´guru´ people on the Net claiming everything to be a scam, starting from people using FREE sites through FREE hosting to everything bad that happens, creating thus a completely wrong atmosphere. While my experience shows that almost everything paid is a scam (- Do not get me wrong, I do not say you should not buy anything. I only say that you should be careful. You will find out that you have to buy items but it is a different topic.) This only shows how everything on the Net is individual and you should never make general conclusions.

Since you have to trust someone or some source of information, in principle I divide the source people into three categories: I fully trust the first one, and when I was thinking about this article, I realised that sometimes I do not even check the information I get from these (- you cannot even check everything every time), I trust partially to the second, ie I consider the information I get from them but check it carefully, and do not trust the third, not even consider it, I just read what they say.

I did not create my categories in random. When I started on the Net, I read and tested everything thoroughly and dropped everything that I either could not properly check or I had doubts about. In the course of this, several people showed to provide me constantly with the above three categories of information.

And in fact, this is my answer to the above question and my advice:

To read and check and test everything you get all the time to create your categories but try and avoid hasty conclusions, not to drop things or people too quickly and definitely not because of one occurrence only. You have to get steady results before you can do a thing like that. Otherwise you will end up without source people. Everyone makes mistakes, you too.

And just a few words to finish this: It is not sufficient to get the right information or the right hint, it is vital to act on it at once because once your right information turns obsolete, it ceases to be the right information.

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