Internet Marketing Strategy Blog By Roy Sencio

Fake PageRank? Yes indeed, PageRank can be faked and in fact there are a lot of shady personalities out on the internet offering these dubious deals to unsuspecting webmasters offering them a link on a page that has a jacked up PageRank for a fee.

To begin with, we do not encourage buying of links, in fact search engines are against it either because it totally skews results, and well, render their algorithms ineffective in presenting relevant search results.

This morning I received an email from unknown sender, and this is how it went.

Dear Sir/Madam,

If you are looking for an instant valid PageRank 6 link for your website today, we offer you; http://www.{theirscamsite}.com and http://www.{theirscamsite}.com.

The offer is limited to 100 links and the price for a whole year is as low as $19.

This offer, has priority to our former customers who receive this e-mail, and will not be offered to public until May. 15th, 2008.

Best Regards
Leo
10Directory Network

Yearly PageRank 6 Links Hosted on Unique IP Ranges @
http://www.{theirscamsite}.com
http://www{theirscamsite}.com
http://www.{theirscamsite}.com

The sender’s email address is 10Directory Network <admin@10directory.com>.

Sorry, I cannot include the actual domains on the post because search engines might interpret this as me linking to a site of questionable character and might have serious consequences.

Now, for those of you who are not familiar with that PageRank is, it is a quantitative measure used by Google to gauge quality of a webpage based on the number of links pointing to that specific page. Now if a specific page has a PageRank of 6, you can expect to see a ton of really good backlinks pointing to that page. Just to find out if the offer was legit, I did some checking to verify backlinks. To do that you simply have to go to Google and type link:theURL or in this case link:http://www.webtoolsite.com, then you will be presented with a list of backlinks. But Google isn’t exactly a trustworthy source of backlink counts since for some reasons they do not show or reveal all backlinks that point to a page, so you can go to Yahoo and do that same search using the same words entered. The result will show you just how many backlinks are pointing to the site.

In this case… the results for both Google and Yahoo, one had 4 links and the other had a big 0! A big fage PageRank Scam! But there is another way of checking, and you will find that below, keep reading. When I checked on those 4 links that other site had, each of those links didn’t have any links to them as well.

So how are people pulling this off?

I’ll present you with two explanations, the first one is from forum post.

“The fraudster buys a domain name and sets up a website Directory. But, before they make the directory available for public view, they steal the PageRank of an innocent website. They do this by redirecting their directory’s domain name to the innocent website that has a high Pagerank. By doing a redirect to, for example, a website that has a PR8, Google thinks (rightly so) that the Directory’s domain name has a PR8. Once Google has assigned the backlinks and the PR to the redirected Directory domain, the Directory domain owner ‘turns on’ the Directory–and it appears to have a PageRank of 8.”

Next is this page… and I quote;
“This seller builds up the backlinks and PR of his own site www.scam-domain-buyers-easily.org and then 301 redirects to the www.keywordwidget.com domain name. At the next update(s) that domain is then showing as having all the backlinks and the PR7. Then after the purchase the seller switches the 301 to redirect to his next selling site www.keywordwidgets2.com which bumps up the backlinks and PR of THAT site which he then lists for sale.”

DETECTING A FAKE PAGERANK
Detecting a fake PR is fairly simple. If you think that a site is showing a fake PR, then simply take a look at its cache version on Google. Make sure you check both instances, with and without the www prefix. One may be redirected, while the other not!

* Check cache by going to google and typing in info:yourdomain.com

* Check cache by going to google and typing in info:www.yourdomain.com

So before you go off entertaining any such emails, although to begin with buying PageRank is something that you should not be doing, verify these domains/sites.

Do not get Fake PageRank scammed!

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