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Find and Evaluate Links

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Before information is used or cited, it is important to check out its online references: who links to it and what links the author has placed on the page.


Links are one of the easiest credibility indicators to locate. Search engines index all the pages that a Web page links to, resulting in a reverse look-up directory for all the pages in the search engine's database.

 

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