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October 14, 2005

Fake PageRank Detection Tool

Using redirection and cloaking, a site can lay claim to the PageRank score of another site, with Dark SEO Team giving you a classic example here. Is it really a PR10 site, or is it Memorex? Actually, it's Google.

Compare the backlinks, and you'll see link:www.pr10.darkseoteam.com = link:google.com! That's a way to detect fake PageRank. Or you can do it more easily with this handy tool from SEOlogs. Enter the domain you suspect of being a faker, push submit, and if the domain you were checking on remains the same, all systems go. If not, they're faking you out.

Posted by Danny Sullivan at October 14, 2005 11:24 AM