Comments on: Fake Pagerank – 2 Steps For Detecting Fake PR Websites

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:39:26 +0000

Hey Ryan,

Install SearchStatus plugin for Firefox. It’ll show pagerank and Alexa (and other stuff if you want to). Just Google for it…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:33:58 +0000

Since Google took off pagerank off of the toolbar, what is the easiest way to view a site’s / page’s pagerank?

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:39:43 +0000

Hi Mike,

You can get the links like you “ordered” – 100 PR3+ links – but they will be on a page with 50 other links on a crappy site. I’ve tried that before and got no benefits from them.

Maybe you’ll have more luck. In any case, the freelancer will send you a report after the job done and you can check the sites to see if they have fake pagerank.

You can add the requirement into the project text (links must not be on fake pagerank pages) so that you win a dispute later if this happens.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:06:34 +0000

Hi Tomaz – thanks for sharing this (along with everything else). I have a question related to your point on fake PR. I was going to use freelancer dot com to see if I could outsource some linkbuilding. I looked at some of the specs for work required e.g.”I want 100 PR3+ oneway links …. to my website on blue bananas” but since looking at your article it seems that if I was to do this, I would probably end end up with a lot of fake PR links.

Instead, I am planning to ask for 50 sites related to my keywords with resources page of PR2+ so that I can check the PRs out for myself. Do you think I am being too cautious?

All the best – and thanks for all your help again, Mike (from Barcelona conference)

By: Tracey

Tracey — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:51:52 +0000

Great advice. My website is slowly starting to pick up since creating it, and I’ve gotten a lot of link exchanges. Except when you try and contact these people, they ignore you. Thanks for the tips on how to verify if it’s a real site or not.

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:25:29 +0000

Thanks for that Tomaz – another valuable piece of information.

There’s always going to be people who think it’s OK to screw everyone else. Let’s hope the karma kicks their ass for them! (Can I say ass?)

The thing that gets me is that if they put the energy and motivation into a real business then they’d make so much more.

Go figure.

By: Sherman Lambert

Sherman Lambert — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:27:31 +0000

Great tips Tomaz, I will keep this in mind when I start link building.

Sherman

By: steve

steve — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:49:47 +0000

wow thanks – i never knew how to detect that

By: Jerrick

Jerrick — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:50:50 +0000

Wow, I never knew that one can fake Page Rank. I have heard of fake earnings like clickbank….but Page Rank? The internet is full of crap, no wonder Google slaps are always on-going…

By: Miki

Miki — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:02:07 +0000

Nice point Tomaz, I run the site in the link diagnosis tool and I received 0 links back (despite that the site is PR4).

http://www.linkdiagnosis.com/index.php?q=http://www.adstro-online.com