Yes, it is done pretty easily with a 301 redirect from a high pr page.. unfortunately it is almost impossible to identify it..
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Would that be considered "fake" pr. and since now the link juice is passed on, would the new page retain its pr if the redirect is deleted??
Would that be considered "fake" pr. and since now the link juice is passed on, would the new page retain its pr if the redirect is deleted??
It's very easy to detect Fake PR, just type in Google:
info: yourdomain.com
if the result is different than the domain you tested against, the PR is fake
Careful. There's some sneaky PR manipulation going on these days which bypasses the old info: yourdomain.com and all the usual online fake PR checkers. I suspect some nifty htaccess coding but can't put my finger on it. As above poster says, careful link analysis will give you a good clue is this is BS PR that will likely disappear in the next update. Check the site on archive.org wayback machine... if you see snapshots of redirects even long ago that shouldn't be there, something is definitely a miss.
Recently i came across a few sellers selling high pr blog post.
pr 7 - 9
i am pretty sure they are fake but they passes all the usual check
1) Pagerank checker
2) info:domain.com
3) backlinks, they have 1,000s of backlinks
what make me so sure they are fake ?
i seen legit high pr sites
pr7 websites should be like venturebeat
pr8 websites should be like mashable and techcrunch
p5 websites shoud be like SPI at the very minimum
fake pr sites do not show up on wayback machine cache
that how i determine whether its real or fake.
but i am very curious how they bypass info:domain.com check
can anyone answer ?
thanks