I am about to buy a domain that is being sold as PR3. How do I know if this is genuine PR or fake? Can anyone reccomend any online tools?
the prchecker.info tool - does it tell you if the PR is fake? or is it just looking at the toolbar PR?
The easiest way to check an individual domain for fake page rank is to search site:website.com (where website.com is the site you are checking) If the first result is not the domain and a another domain using the site: search command then most likely the domain you are checking has a forwarded domains page rank
There are many tools available on net. have you installed google toolbar? there is a option to check the pr of the website in google toolbar.
search in google for info:domain.com The search result must be also from the same domain. Here is an example of a fake PR
i am doing this with SEO quake for mozilla - and with it you can check almost everything for the domain.
checkpagerank.net is a good one. It gives you the genuine PR as well as link popularity and also the domain age.
As mention earlier you can try both site:sitename info:sitename if search result shows the same site name mention above , then site is genuine.
you can use services like sitelogr.com which will show you not only the pagerank, but also other details like traffic.