How can you tell if someone is faking there pagerank by doing a sneaky redirect?

im interested in buying a website but there are no backlinks yet the site has a PR4 how is that possible? I did every test other people stated in the search but they all come back saying the site is legit. here is an example site www . anitayalejandro . com

 

I use SEO quake and I just click load page information and is displays the PR, I then oipen yahoo site explorer and enter the url of the site and do the same again, this then verifies the site's PR.

 

By using the 'info:' command on google. if you do a 'info:www.thedomain.com' and it shows a domain other than the one you entered, then it was at one time using a redirect.

I'd test with and without the 'www'.

 

great tip..thanks!!!

 

You can also use one of the many page rank validator tools there are out there on the web. These usually work a treat!

 

checkpagerank.net works very well for me.