I have a site that has been rated a PR4 for over a year with no back links of any kind. No Citation Flow, No Trust Flow yet it is a verified PR4. How can that happen?
PR has no meaning unless the domain got quality natural high PR backlinks. This domain most probably got its PR from redirection (which called fake PR) or the backlinks got deleted. Either way, such domain has zero SEO value (or even negative value if it got manipulated) and the PR will reduce next PR update.
Thanks for the response tbtb! I thought the same things as you mentioned, however when I use rankchecker dot com, it validates the PR4 rating as "valid". Also, I keep expecting the PR to drop but it has been a PR4 for over a year now. You would think that if was a initially a redirected URL that it would have been updated by now. I also agree that it has no SEO value without substantiated back links, but I am really curious how this domain has remained at a validated PR4 for this long.
Would you mind sharing the domain also here so that anyone else can also confirm if pagerank is natural or fake?
Share the domain so that we can confirm the same. Page Rank is not assigned to a site with no backlinks or citations or unless it is a microsite from an authoritative source or business or might be that you have bought a domain which was already existing and was expired after a use.