Comments on: Don’t Get Scammed – Check Fake PageRank Before You Buy

By: natasa

natasa — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:06:00 +0000

you make nice job, very good.
http://www.karga.gr

By: Orlando SEO

Orlando SEO — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:25:00 +0000

Very helpful info. I am going to double verify PR before purchasing any domain.

By: Stuart - SEO Chester

Stuart - SEO Chester — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:04:00 +0000

Great info thanks a lot… I keep getting link exchange requests from sites with a so called 6-7 PageRank yet they allways seem suspicious with ounly 20-30 odd backlinks to them!! Now I have checked a couple of them like you showed above and see my suspicions were well deserved! Google should be able to scan all indexed sites and somehow penalize all fakers – this would be nice.

By: servertools

servertools — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:32:00 +0000

Hi Travis. Interesting article (especially the bit about how PageRanks can be faked). We also have a site that checks the ‘publicly available’ Google PageRank: http://urlcheckup.com

By: Travis

Travis — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:38:23 +0000

KC:

Unless you are a text link broker, you definitely don’t need to focus on PR. I’ve been an affiliate marketer since 2005 and I have NEVER paid attention to the PR of any of my websites and have done quite well – and most of my sites are only PR2. I think the highest PR any of my sites have had are PR4.

Travis

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:04:49 +0000

Welly:

To be honest, I didn’t either until I wrote this post…lol. You learn something new everyday in this business.

Travis

By: Welly Mulia

Welly Mulia — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:38:28 +0000

Hey Travis,

Nice tip there about checking for fake pagerank in Google. Didn’t know that you could actually fake the actual pagerank of a domain by redirecting it to another domain.

Best!
Welly Mulia

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:36:54 +0000

You’re listed as the owner because when you transferred the domain (I’m assuming you sold it to someone) they didn’t update the WHOIS registration information.

Travis

By: Karin Høgh

Karin Høgh — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:30:34 +0000

Absolutely – btw what is PR 8 – I could not sell the domain – no buyers I have any idea what the domain should cost – and if Godaddy will leave it up for action – do you have any insight – I wonder why I am still listed as the owner..

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:18:52 +0000

Karin:

Thanks for stopping by and shedding some light on the situation. You bring up a very good point that the PR stated for a given domain may be fake but it doesn’t necessarily mean the owner of the domain is trying to scam people. The owner may simply be redirecting it to another domain because they are no longer maintaining the “old” domain. Come to think of it, I’ll be doing the same exact thing with one of my domains.

I guess the main point of my article was to verify what the PR really is – regardless of the seller’s intent. If someone is trying to sell a PR 8 domain, as a buyer you need to make sure that the PR is legit.

Travis