Fake PR – Faking Pagerank

Many webmasters buy PR for their site. They find a site that has a PR of 8 for example and buy a link to their site. After a while, your site ends up with a high(er) PR and you in turn can sell PR or the site in whole; provided the site you are buying from does not have Fake PR.

Buying PR

Buying PR is not something I recommend, but if you must, make sure the site you’re buying from does not Fake PR.

Let me first tell you how websites Fake PR, then I’ll explain how to detect Fake PR. Some of you may object to me making this information available, but trust me, the people who use this technique are well aware of it!

Faking Pagerank

Sites fake PR by looking for the Googlebot, then redirecting it to a high PR site, like Yahoo.com. Google sees that users actually land on Yahoo.com and the PR Bar in turn reflects the PR of the Yahoo.com rather than your site.

Here is an example of what Fake PR code looks like:

/* insert a cloaking script here to detect whether the visitor is
Googlebot */
if (Googlebot) {
echo '‘;
exit();
}
else {
echo “

My PR10 page!

“;
}
?>

Detect Fake Pagerank

To detect Fake Pagerank, simply type in the webpage, such as www.SiteWithFakePR.com into Google’s search and look at the cache. The cache will not be that of the site with Fake PR, it will be the site with the actual PR.

Fake PR Example

Here is a site that fakes their Pagerank: www.pr10.darkseoteam.com and they also include examples of Fake PR 10, Fake PR9, Fake PR8 and more. Notice how the cache is of Google.com and not www.pr10.darkseoteam.com? Try it for yourself, put www.pr10.darkseoteam.com into the search field of Google and see the results for yourself.

So, if you’re buying pagerank, be very careful and check it for yourself.