Beware of Link Exchange with Fake PR websites

January 30th, 2009 | email this

Leave your comment Posted by Life is Colourful

Published in Featured, Links, SEO, pagerank

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I got a private message on a webmaster forum today asking for link exchange with a PR6 website with any PR4+ link exchange in return. You might be getting such requests through various means, so I would better bring this to your notice as well.

First of all, this request sounds fishy if someone is asking for such link exchange where they are expecting something lower than their level. Mostly, such people if ever ask for low PR websites, they ask for three way link exchange with backlink pointing to one of their other websites.

How would you find out whether the site is legitimate?

1. Check the backlinks of this website, there should be considerable number of backlinks to reach to such high PR. If it’s lower PR you get request from, be sure that there should be some number of quality backlinks before you decide to say yes.

2. Go to websites like digpagerank.com and just add this website in there to check the real Pagerank. If it’s good PR, it will be shown in Green, and if it’s fake PR, it will be in Red. For non-confirmed PR, it will show it in Orange, avoid linking to such PRs.

As simple as that! Short article but useful info to keep in mind!

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47 Responded To This Post

27121. Technology Forum said in January 30th, 2009

Really interesting. Aren’t these called spam blogs?

27126. free Blog Directory said in January 30th, 2009

Thanks for writng about this. I have received several requests at a forum I am invloved in. What I have learned is that if it sounds to good to be true, it usually is.

27133. wedding favour said in January 31st, 2009

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27201. Calvin Richardson said in February 1st, 2009

I’m confused. You mentioned “good pr” and “bad pr.” How does the site have a fake high page rank? I understand they’re tricking you but I don’t follow how they mislead their pagerank.

27204. webkinz said in February 1st, 2009

Hm. I wonder, how people fake it?

27207. Life is Colourful said in February 1st, 2009

You can easily fake the PR by redirecting (not forwarding) a domain to an existing domain with some PR (say PR5). After few days, the new domain will get PR5 but it will actually get it due to the redirection and not because of backlinks. Such PR will be fake PR.

27218. Dave Hadson said in February 1st, 2009

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acne treatment, Healthy Home Remedies and more.

27220. Caterers Sydney said in February 1st, 2009

Whatever fact has been mentioned regarding the link exchange with pr sites in deed should be aware for this fact while doing so. Thanks giving for the status checking site.

27233. Gadget said in February 2nd, 2009

Nice information, thanks!

27258. Underfloor Heating said in February 2nd, 2009

This information is really worth. Exactly we need to be more aware about such things.

27281. Miami Design said in February 3rd, 2009

The best way to check PR authority is to check the website and then check google cache (cache:URL in Google search box ). If the site is the same as the cache you have valid PR.

27301. Acer Aspire Guy said in February 3rd, 2009

Thanks for the information. I knew very little about people faking their page ranks.

27302. dedicated said in February 3rd, 2009

Thanks for information. You can understand fake pr. there are web site to see this.

27316. Net Age said in February 4th, 2009

Awesome, thanks for this info. I’ve probably been a victim of such websites already without knowing it. I’ll be on the look out from now on.

27327. dean said in February 4th, 2009

I’m an active DP members and has seen a lot of link offers at extremely cheap prices even though the PR is up to 6. There must be something wrong with it, I think, but couldn’t find any clue.

27362. Myers Briggs Test said in February 5th, 2009

Yeah, PR can be easy to “fake” although it still takes a good amount of time for Google’s PR bar/status to update…seems like it updates about twice a year these days. It used to be more often though.

27366. webkinz said in February 5th, 2009

Thanks for the explanation. I’ve never thought that is possible.

27422. Paul said in February 6th, 2009

Websites can get into some real trouble here. Thanks for the great write up!

27450. Ben Pei said in February 6th, 2009

This is wierd. I was just reading from another blog saying link exchange with seo websites and now I am reading beware of link exchange. Lol confused..

28473. Pick Up Lines Guy said in March 1st, 2009

I’m glad I came upon this post now. I am busy promoting my newest site and this is great information.

28653. Zaslony said in March 4th, 2009

People will try to scam you on everything these days. It’d be nice to create some kind of database of those kind of websites – it’d make people think twice before trying to lie to other webmasters.

29125. Puneet said in March 13th, 2009

have come across such fake link exchange many times … i used to check on many pr checking tools but i don’t think they are always correct … i have personally checked a site with fake pr and passed through such pr checking tools available

many ppl buy such high pr links and at last gets fooled

29582. teenwebguru said in April 5th, 2009

Thanks for telling me. I recieved one of these messages on Digital Point and almost did it.

29589. Paul Scott said in April 5th, 2009

Does anyone know how they manage to fake the PR?

29650. Make Money Online said in April 9th, 2009

Everytime someone is requesting for link exchange, first thing I’ll check their Pagerank in some PR checker site. After confirm their pagerank, if the site is higher than me and have similar niche, link exchange will go on.
Anyway, good tips dude!

Regards,
Lee

30115. Toronto personal injury said in May 15th, 2009

I’m Late to know about this informations.

30184. Apple Shape said in May 21st, 2009

I didn’t realise page rank could be faked. I think I will go and double check all the exchanges I have made.

30203. MP3 tunes said in May 24th, 2009

Thanks for the info, now always be used to verify digpagerank.com

30401. therapy said in June 20th, 2009

Nice post about the Fake PR websites, but just wanted to know that what is harm in getting links from these websites.

30402. fıkra said in June 20th, 2009

Thanks for the text. May I publish it with sitename ???

30457. Colocation Dedicated said in June 26th, 2009

thank you nice document

30534. juicy couture said in July 6th, 2009

I came across a real junk site that I wondered how it got such a high PR but I am betting it was a fake PR. Good to know this information. Thanks.

30541. Discon said in July 7th, 2009

Suprised to hear this, i should be more concerned with the sites with real PR

30556. financial planner said in July 9th, 2009

can anyone give me a good websites offering link exchange services??

Does link exchange actually works??

30575. Miami SEO said in July 14th, 2009

Checking the backlink profile of a potential link partner is the most effective way to identify if the site is a spammer. Use Yahoo site explorer or linkdiagnosis to do this effectively.

30592. masini second-hand said in July 16th, 2009

And how can they make a fake pagerank for a page ?
Heard about that but still cant figure it out, they trick the pages that can check for page rank ?

30599. Hitachi Magic Wand Reviews said in July 16th, 2009

Don’t focus too much on PR when gathering links. Just get links from solid sites offering them. PR should be an aforethought.

30649. Yoga Mat Review said in July 25th, 2009

While getting links, should we concentrate more on quality of the site, or PR?

30700. iphone said in August 3rd, 2009

Google should remove the public PR listings – it causes alot of problems

31038. Personal said in October 17th, 2009

Thanks!!! I get these PR8 requests all the time.. knew the had to be bogus but had no way to check. Your right, short article but just what I needed.

31217. Article Directory said in December 1st, 2009

I have been getting a lot of such requests and I actually exchanged a few links too. Thanks for the warning

31227. Internet Marketing | Net Age said in December 4th, 2009

Unfortunately there are sooo many people out there who are totally unscrupulous in their online dealings. Even if the main page of the website has a high PR, the internal page you will be linked from might have a poor PR, so be aware of that too!