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.
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do you know any php script which can autodetect if pr is fake? thanks
can u plz give me the exact code of google fake page rank of 6 or 7
i want it urgently
Good and Relative informaion.
I have a question about this, of a personal nature. Could you please contact me?
Thank you,
~Lisa
Does this still work? I would love to be able to fake PR for a site.
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?
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
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…
Nice info .. Btw .. there r many Firefox plugin available that detects the exact n right PR for dat site
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Nice article. Does this still work?
The darkseo pages are no longer successful fakes, Google has caught up. Anyway it only takes a second to check for fake pagerank.
is there any way to make fake PR back to valid PR? I have accidentally bought expired domains with fake PR.
Genius…
I recently got an email from a site which claims to have a PR of 7 requesting a link exchange with minimum PR3 pages. When I checked up on them I found them to be faking their PR…
but what happens to your real PR and backlinks in the meantime? If you do a 301 redirect for google, then all backlinks to your site will be counted towards the redirected page, rather than your site, so if you are trying to get good quality backlinks to your site by getting link exchanges with high PR sites, then you will not see the benefit until after the cloaked redirection is removed. Of course, you might try to sell the domain before you remove it, which is a criminal act of fraud if the person is buying the domain thinking it has a PR of 7, but if you are using the tactic to enhance your own SE rankings, its not going to work in the short term. If you remove the redirection, and the other sites linking to you don’t notice, then as long as you have not been banned from google, you might get a decent PR naturally after a while but it is a risk that you will get found out and thrown out of the SERPs. My advice is not to do it. If you want a decent PR, you have to spend the time doing manual directory submissions, quality link exchanges, article submissions, and all the other laborious, time consuming work that is link building.
… so in answer to musjoy’s post above – DON’T Do IT! your site will disappear from google if you redirect the googlebot to another site.
I’m sure your client would much rather be ranked #1 in the results pages with a low PR, than be nowhere in the SERPS but with a nice big green bar in the google toolbar.
If you own a domain with a fake PR, what you should do is remove any cloaked redirections and then get google to spider your site again – best way to do this is add a link on a PR3 or above page. If you have been penalised, then use the google webmaster tools to request a reconsideration: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration
thanks a lot, go to test it