Fake PR?

[bigPunk]

Hey
Sometimes I see here ppl trying to sell their sites/links. and once in a while they are getting comment like "this site has a fake pr".
My question is how the hell can you fake a pr?

[Simon]

Question: "How the hell can you fake a pr?"

Very, very easily. And no need to explain how to do it here just so more idiots can rush out to do it themselves.

But even if it wasn't fake PR, it would still be Toolbar PR, and most knowledgeable people don't really put much value on Toolbar PR.

The real signals that Big G uses to rank sites are in the hundreds, and Toolbar PR is such a very, very small part of that equation that it's (almost?) meaningless today.

Those who buy and sell sites, or links on sites, based on Toolbar PR, are living in a time long gone.

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+does+Fake+PR+mean

[bigPunk]

Question: "How the hell can you fake a pr?"

Very, very easily. And no need to explain how to do it here just so more idiots can rush out to do it themselves.

But even if it wasn't fake PR, it would still be Toolbar PR, and most knowledgeable people don't really put much value on Toolbar PR.

The real signals that Big G uses to rank sites are in the hundreds, and Toolbar PR is such a very, very small part of that equation that it's (almost?) meaningless today.

Those who buy and sell sites, or links on sites, based on Toolbar PR, are living in a time long gone.

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+does+Fake+PR+mean

Oh so it's based on those annoying toolbars.. I see. Thanks

[PornDiscounts-V]

Umm no...

You can find fake PR by checking different criteria.

Google for:
info:domain.com

See if the result matches what you are expecting. Check the cache and see if it is what you are expecting.

backlinkwatch.com - check the backlinks. Are they all visible? Or was the site hacked and backlinks injected as zero pixel CSS?

Often you will find that a PR4 site was being 301 redirected to another real PR4 site. And Google associated the domain with the redirect. So the cache and/or info data will show the redirects information, not the domain you are buying.

Or... You will find that they have massive links from .org, .edu, and high PR .com that are all hacked sites where the links were injected and CSS was used to make them 0 pixels... So the owner of the site doesn't know they got hacked and are bleeding PR to the fake PR site.