Fake Pagerank
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Hi,
I am offered a paid link to the following site www.alliancedownunder09.com/ which has a Page Rank 6.
I checked blekko/yahoo/bing but the number of backlinks do not match the page rank.
Also the posts on the site itself are very short and seem spammy ?
Then why does google grant it PR = 6 or is there some trick used ?
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Took your advice and checked with http://www.rankchecker.com and http://www.seomastering.com/fake-pagerank-checker.php they say page rank is valid
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Toolbar PageRank can be faked with 301 or 302 redirects and user agent cloaking. It's frequently done to sell links for inflated prices or to sell the domain.
As Wissam said (we replied at the same time) since Toolbar pagerank is only updated periodically, they can leave everything in place until the toolbar updates, then remove the redirect and everything looks totally innocent and legit.
There are some tools online - look for Fake Pagerank Checker. Looking at thatt site, I would be very surprised if it WASN'T fake. The backlinks and the site content are a dead giveaway.
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He might have a site that its actually have a PR6 301 for a couple month then remove the redirect.
Google will pass that pagerank to the new site.
but eventually in the next PR update PR6 will be gone.
It teach us something too that PR is not everything !
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Their site is full of spammy posts ... there is NOT a single post more than 300 words. How did they manage a PR 6 in the first place?
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Maybe, the PR of this website is not updated yet. After update its PR will be on mark 3-4.
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