How can I check for fake Pagerank
作者: Rock | 发布时间: Thu, 04/19/2007 - 22:30After seeing more and more available lists containing domains with fake pagerank (PR), I decided to make this post to help you spot and avoid domains with fake PR.
What is fake PR? Fake PR is achieved by using a 301 or 302 redirect to point one site to another site with a higher pagerank.
How can I check for fake PR? You can use the fake PR check tool here.
All you need to do is compare the URL you submitted to the results. If the domain name you entered has fake PR, the results will show a different domain name to the one you submitted.
Inconclusive results? If it returns “Sorry, we cant verify the pagerank for this page”, then Google is unable to determine whether the PR is fake or not.
If this is the case then you can use archive.org’s WayBack Machine to view old versions of a site to see whether or not a redirect was being used when the page was archived.
Archive.org If you use archive.org to view the site’s history and the address in the URL changes when you click to view a result, then the domain was being redirected on that date.http://web.archive.org/
Are the results 100% conclusive? There is a chance that the results are not correct.The fake PR checker uses Google results so if the domain’s redirect has been removed and the results are updated on Google, the fake PR checker won’t see the previous redirect. That won’t happen overnight though.
Archive.org has no recent archives, they’re usually at least a year old, so they won’t show the most recent redirects. Also there is a chance that the domain could have been used legitimately after it was archived, so don’t go back to results from 1999 and expect them to be relevant.
Used in combination though, they’re very good at helping you spot fake PR.
