I see people soliciting bids to their brand new bidding directories. It is claimed that their brand new directories have solid PR - some as high as 5! I understand that some of these people have bought expired domains / sites and converted them to bid directories and used the existing PR as a selling point. I also understand that it is likely that in a couple of months, the PR is likely to drop as the previous backlinks would not be sustained. What are your tips on detecting such "bogus" directories? I wouldn't want to make a bid if these directories are likely to fall in importance in a couple of months' time.
That's indeed a good quetsion You can do a simple check by typing info:sitename in google to see if it's a completely fake/forged PR. You should also check for dropped domains by going to archive.org. I normally use www.checkpagerank.net to check for fake PR.
just goto google.com type in the textbox: info:www.TheSiteYouAreChecking.com when the results pop up, if it is NOT the domain in question, then it's fake. example: tigsd.com PR7 results: info:www.tigsd.com ----> www.tig.com outcome: FAKE PR
i think the op wants to know about real pr but will likely be dropped in the next few months because the sites was not the way it is when getting the pr. not about fake pr and such the only way to see is internet archive, see if the site was a directory back then and not something else
I think I covered both in my response Some folks actually use robots.txt to block ia-archiver so that you can't see details of their site.
Another tip is to see the domain name of the directory (you wouldnt call a bid directory lionsanime or englishfair or ...) and i believe the sure thing to know if the pr have good chances to stay is to look the backlinks of the site/domain in yahoo.com if the top 100 links comes from sites related to directories or to the niche of directory and have anchor texts that suit to the directory as it stands right now then you are sure that the pr that this site have is true,valid and it is to be trust.
It looks like a bidder should do a bit of homework so as not to be scammed. I have tried the info:site.com and checkpagerank functions and the results come in handy.
Usually the domain says it all. For example the bid directory in my sig owned by tufans. Like his last one, it has nothing to do with a bid directory. Just has a high PR...
Try site:www.sitename.com to see funnier results from a blog Lately Mikey's signature has been prime real estate for bid directories using dropped domains or fake PR )
LOL! I think no only will we need to check out who's selling what but also who's buying our signature prime estate. We don't wanna be caught having some sleazy sites tagging us along
Indeed it has. Perhaps they think I preach to the newbies too much and take advantage of that, hoping to target them for their ridiculous domain'd money making schemes
LOL.. where did you get that one from? Bogus/Fake PR bidding directories are exactly what this image tries to sell.
Guys we dont talk only for if the pr is valid that is obvious even to newbies i guess but if the pr is given to the site that is now or it belong to a site that it was previously and most likely wnt last. so in my opinion best 2 advices to check if it is legimitate is : 1)see the archives www.archive.org 2)The sure thing to know if the pr have good chances to stay is to look the backlinks of the site/domain in yahoo.com if the top 100 links comes from sites related to directories or to the niche of directory and have anchor texts that suit to the directory as it stands right now then you are sure that the pr that this site have is true,valid and it is to be trust.
It must also be brought to your attention that the 'info:' command in Google can also be 'faked'. Not necessarily faked, but during a Google results export, when they export backlink info, the info: will update - but not (yet) necessarily the pagerank. I know fine well usually there's a PR toolbar update shortly after a backlink update - but this still leaves that 'sweet spot' between BL and PR updates. Be afraid, be very afraid