Hi all, Topic is weird, right?! anyway.... it is real. I've had 1 page in my site that has a very high PR for the last 6 months or more, at first I thought it was a glitch in Google PR update, but today I've ran many checks and found in IWEBTool.com cloaking tool that google sees this page like this: <head><title>Document Moved</title></head> <body><h1>Object Moved</h1>This document may be found <a HREF="HIGH PR URL">here</a></body> Code (markup): now, the HIGH PR URL, is just a subpage in a real high PR, but its PR is gone, which means I "stole" his PR. I don't know how I've done this, I didn't want or try to steal any PR. How do I get rid of it?
Are you using 302 redirect on that page? Yes, the PR you are seeing on your page is a fake PR taken from the original page..
Wow. You just 'took' his PR, but if I was you, I'd message the person you 'took' the PR from, and ask him if he wants it. If he doesn't reply back, well then hes given up on the website, and its all your pr. I'd sell as many links on that site as I could before the PR updates, you could make some really good money.
I am aware to the redirect 302 hijack thing, but I've never done it and am not interested to. I checked my htaccess and it has nothing special in it, just a redirect from an old page to a new one (within the same domain) and a redirect from all non-www to www.domain pages. Any more ideas on how it happened and how to remove it? Should I contact google?
Weird, i just ran the test on that tool from Iwebtool and seem like every valid urls i entered came out the results exactly like yours? Tool broken?
you know what, I was afraid to it, thinking that google will penalize me before I could fix it, but I don't know how to fix and I know it's not my fault so - http://www.bestmovingquotes.com/info/site_map.html Let me know what you think.
and you checked the urls the tool pointed you to? cause I did and that page it was pointing me to has a grey PR bar.
What i did was checking few random valid URLs from authority sites, included one of their (Iwebtool/directory/). All came out the same results as your with a website ch2mDOTcom/.. in the returned code. And yes that page is showed grayed on G toolbar.
It's odd.. the page iWebtool is showing is not even indexed in google, let alone having any PR.. While your page is not related to that page, and google is returning your page rank as valid Pagerank. As far as I can tell, you are not hijacking the PR. iWebtool is broken. don't worry
at first when I saw it I thought... 'hey that's nice .... maybe my homepage will be PR7 and this is just the start' Anyway I'll contact Google and see if this is legit or not. Thanks for all you help guys.
I think it's legit, infact the iWebtool is broken indeed so the result can not be trusted. Relax, your pagerank is 100% legit..
If you haven't done anything shady then Google mess I'd say, It happened with me too.. My inner pages went PR 5 - PR 6 but homepage stayed PR 3 for about 3 updates.
well, sounds like what I'm having.... too bad no more than 1 page so far. Hope that when this PR update arrives it will give me some better PR to the rest of the site.
Meh... does it REALLY matter anyway? PR is completely stupid if the traffic doesn't comes with it. And from the looks of things, it didn't.
step by step, I'm building this site from the top so it would compete in the top search results, but 1 thing at the time. The PR, although less important than traffic, points on the work that had been done so far on the website and shows the link quality you have. PR is a part of the SEO job and I will surely won't get to the top search results with no PR at all.
that's what people here say... that they see same results for other pages in iwebtool, so I guess I can't count it and the PR is real.