Check For Fake Page Rank

[Matthew Sherborne]

If you’re browsing the popular webmaster forums you’ll see a lot of great looking website deals. The only problem with all of the URLs to choose from is fiquring out which ones are real domain bargains and which ones are overhyped trash. One of the tools I always use before ever purchasing an established domain is the Fake PageRank Checker Tool.


Pagerank is the popular search engine Google’s way to calculate the importance of websites in the Google index. When a site has pagerank it is listed between 0 and 10. The higher the pager rank score the better trusted the site is in the eyes of Google.


Fake PageRank is a very popular way of overinflating the value of a website domain by tricking Google in to thinking it has more clout than it really does. When someone is offering a website domain for sale one of the selling points frequently used is the website’s pagerank.


Devious webmasters often will use a 301 or 302 redirect to artificially boost the domains pagerank. This gives the appearance of a popular and Google trusted site when in reality it is neither. Those in the seo know will spot this trick a mile away but those who are new to the domain purchasing game can lose a wad of cash purchasing a hyped up fake pr domain.


Here’s a great tool I use to spot fake pagerank:
Fake PageRank Detection SEO Tool and PR Check - SEO Logs.com



If you’d like more information on buying and selling website domains check out this post. If you’re interested in a Google Page Rank Prediction Tool go here.