I was just over at Russell Brunson’s Birthday Giveaway and checking out what’s available for free there (see below for a short list of freebies that grabbed my attention).

While I was there, there was this one item… I liked the title… but the site looked so amateurish, I wasn’t at all sure I was ready to give him (her?) my email address.

So I did a little check of the page’s source code and then realized that some of our readers might know how to do that. It can be quite a help, so here goes…

1. You’re at a page and thinking about signing up to an offer but something makes you wonder what is going to happen to your email address when you sign up. So…

2. Put your cursor over any blank part of the page, right click and select View Source. (If View Source is not offered there, move the cursor to another blank part of the page and try again. Why blank? Otherwise you might get the details of, say, an image – if you’re hovering over a graphic.

3. What you are shown next is the source code (the HTML or whatever that is creating that page on your computer screen).

4. Scan your eyes down the page (or use control + f — that’s f for find), looking for the form code. It begins with the word FORM and ends with the word FORM, not necessarily in capital letters.

Sometimes that’s not there but something like this is:

script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://forms.aweber.com/form/33/12345.js

This is from aweber so we can trust it. Why? Because you can unsubscribe from aweber mailing lists by clicking the final link in each mailout.

5. Inside the form code, you will see the URL of the site where your email address will be stored. If it’s aweber.com or getresponse.com or other well known names, you’re safe. If it’s some other name (and there are many reliable trustworthy autoresponder companies out there — too many to list), you can do a quick Google search to help you decide yes or no.

Hope that helps.

Gary

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Ah yes, here’s the list (so far) of some of the good stuff at the Birthday Giveaway — at http://IAmGettingOldFast.com/giveaway

LIST OF FREE PRODUCTS AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW

Low-Ticket Profits
How to Make Your House Sell
Public Domain Niche Hunter
Membership Riches
YouTube Niche Video Site Generator – Make Money with Videos you DON’T Create.
How To Earn Your First 100 Dollars Online
20 Ultra High Quality Squeeze Page Templates
Learn To Stream Live Video Online – MRR
Disc Mojo Software – Convert Your Digital Products To Physical Products In Minutes!
Get FREE Relevant Backlinks With My SEO Company’s Confidential List Of High PageRank Websites!
Generate Emergency Cash Fast
PPC Web Spy
Free iPhone
Video Blogging For Profits

http://IAmGettingOldFast.com/giveaway is FREE so why not check it out. Most of the stuff there is commercial grade and has been (still is? – yes, probably) selling on the owners’ websites.

I definitely saw one item (it’s on the above list, incidentally) that I paid $49 for (from memory).