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

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