can the google toolbar be tricked also though? I have checked out a domain but some checkers say its fake, some say valid and some say cant tell. My firefox plug in says got PR and google toolbar is stating got PR
sometimes those tools can't show you the exact info you need. the best thing you can do is check it manually using google search by typing info:yourdomain.com and link:yourdomain.com and combine it with google toolbar, that's it!
If you would like to increase the SEO ranking, maybe you could start with not stealing all of the content from my blog: http://php-programming-tutorial.com/blog
At least now you know to watch out. I was about to ask for any advice to find his web host, but I located a WHOIS tool online that tells me. Thanks for your suggestion.