Investigating legitimate work at home opportunities is not as hard as it would seem. The first thing to do is look at the URL in your browser's address bar while you are reading the sales page. Usually, the page you are reading is part of the main site. You want to get to the main site by simply clicking in the address bar and deleting everything after the com.

Look for a forum or online discussion group. If you cannot find this, scroll to the bottom of the page and look for the site map, click this and look for the forum or online discussion. While you are in the site map, look at how many pages there are within the site. This will give you a good idea how much information is available to you should you join their work at home opportunity and the number of pages will give you an idea how long they have been online promoting the program. Feel free to look around here. If there is a forum, try to get into it, and read not only what the members are saying, but also how fresh the content is.

If your prospective work at home opportunity does not have a forum or online discussion, this is not necessarily the end of your investigating. In fact, some good programs use other bigger internet marketing forums for their members. Next, do a Google search but do not just look at the first page results of your search because you may just find the same replicated page promoting the same work at home opportunity (this brings up another factor addressed below). You may need to dig a little deeper into your search to find anything about it in online forums or blogs that pertain to internet marketing.

These forums are a great source of information and I cannot recommend them enough to research a work at home business or internet marketing in general. If you can not find anything about the company other than the selling pages, then your best to skip it and keep your money in your pocket and your hair on your head.

Now, about those replicated sites that all look like the one you clicked on to get this whole ball rolling only to find out there are tons of others out there just like it. You may be thinking why put up another one just like it and what will this do for you. If you thought of that, then you are well on your way to success. You do not want a site like all the others. You want to put your own personality into it and make it your own because what you are really selling or promoting is yourself.

Offering value to the visitor and gaining their trust is what it is all about. With this in mind, you will use the program you choose to market yourself online. It should also teach you and permit you to change your web site to your liking, add pages and make it your own. There should also be an online forum where you can learn and ask questions of the more experienced members who have their own work at home business.