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.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
do you know any php script which can autodetect if pr is fake? thanks
June 19th, 2008 at 2:48 am
can u plz give me the exact code of google fake page rank of 6 or 7
i want it urgently
June 25th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Good and Relative informaion.
July 7th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I have a question about this, of a personal nature. Could you please contact me?
Thank you,
~Lisa
August 30th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Does this still work? I would love to be able to fake PR for a site.
September 10th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
Hi, I am going to purchase this domain: search11.com
I dont know it is real PR or not. it has PR 7. I checked it one month ago. It was not valid PR. But I check it now. It is valid PR. Any idea?
November 19th, 2008 at 5:08 am
if our site have fake pr10 then can google show our site on the top of all sites according to keyword
if yes then what time duration means when google would have to know about this is fake
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:18 am
my site is appearing on 1st page when i search a key word but i want fake pr to show my client, can you send me code for fake pr please?
Also, please explain where i put this code in which tag?
Its urgent…
April 21st, 2009 at 12:25 am
Nice info .. Btw .. there r many Firefox plugin available that detects the exact n right PR for dat site
..
June 5th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Nice article. Does this still work?
June 21st, 2009 at 11:44 pm
The darkseo pages are no longer successful fakes, Google has caught up. Anyway it only takes a second to check for fake pagerank.