Why do some websites have PR5+ and 0 backlinks?

freezeice04

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I've seen some sites where they only have a few links or 0 links at all (Checked using ahrefs) but somehow the domain is PR5 or higher. How is this possible?

 

hellnation

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redirects?

 

acamso

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Could be a number of things. Keep in mind not all backlink checkers are accurate, up-to-date, etc. Although aherfs is great.. I am not too sure on this one. Would need further investigation.

 

freezeice04

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Definitely not a redirect... and there's no way you can get PR5 without ahrefs spotting a single link.

 

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smilecold

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Had the same question. Somebody on another forum gave an idea of it being fake. But how, I can't imagine.

 

Gogol

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Use ahref.com for checking links. There must be atleast 1 high PR site pointing to it(and that's enough for the PR).

 

StartupHat

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I've heard they can use fake PR

 

freezeice04

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Ahrefs can't find a single link or it finds a few links which are PR0

I'd imagine these guys just got some very high PR links, then removed it after the update.

 

danailo

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Links could be recently removed. 301 redirect. New backlinks not crawled from link checker. USe Link assistant. It checks for links at the very moment