Comments on: How To Check Fake Pagerank On Websites – A Tool Review

By: Thomas Pedersen

Thomas Pedersen — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:07:17 +0000

That is a very cool tools, I can even see how my store looked 2 years ago.
great.

I’ll definitly use some of these when purchasing new sites.

By: Sire

Sire — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:49:10 +0000

That’s something else I don’t plan on doing any time soon. Also, if I was to purchase a link I am more likely to look at traffic rather than PR.

By: Mirjam

Mirjam — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:44:26 +0000

right, never thought about that so that is a good reminder, thanks

By: Mikael

Mikael — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:53:31 +0000

@Sire, well it applies both for buying websites but also just for buying links on websites (if one does that).

@Manshu, the reason for it is that the toolbar can be gamed (which is the whole reason for checking).

@Mirjam, LOL…. I don’t think that it work that way. You would actively have to do something to your own site to fake a pagerank. FF addons are great as long as they’re not picking up the data from the same place at the one that might be altered (because then it’ll still lie to you).

By: MIrjam

MIrjam — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:20:57 +0000

here I was thinking that my blog has a PR3… but after reading this post, for all I know it could be a PR6 ROFL

but seriously, interesting but how do you really check your PR?

I think I am using search status (a FF addon) and say think because I have a few SEO addon´s installed so I can instantly check pagerank on the google search engine results whenever I am doing my keyword research.

By: Manshu

Manshu — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:19:31 +0000

Shouldnt Google Toolbar be the right and easy way to do this? I dont understand why a tool is needed to do this?

By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:09:30 +0000

That first one returned a valid rank for me, which I knew to be true and I just went there to see what would happen. I don’t think I will be buying a website anytime soon, but I do believe that anyone who is planning to do so should take every measure possible to make sure their not buying one under false pretenses.