I've seen a lot of new sites pop up on DPF that seem to have an instant PR of 4, PR 5 or PR 6 and sell perm links for $2 to $10. How do these sites get this PR value so fast and more so, what gives? Links so cheap, just sounds fishy
I would say that may be jumping the gun a little bit. I have a site that I just started working on a few weeks ago and it already jumped up to a PR3 and I don't believe the name had been registered before. All I've done to the site is a bunch of one way linking. I was actually surprised when I saw it since i thought I had missed the PR update. Not that PR really matters that much anymore.
Yes, they are sites built on Expired domains.. The best way to check is : check the WHOIS about registration date,, or check google backlinks and so.
“Fake PR�? This is scary! I never heard about this. Can you please enlighten us about how to trace it. This will help many others to save their hard earned $$.
Type the domain at http://www.smartpagerank.com and it will tell you if its pake or not. Checks to see if the page is indexed by google, then it checks the pagerank against the number of backlinks.
Thanks a lot for this. This will help me and on the right time. I was negotiating a deal with Text link Brokers and I have a list of sites provided by them. Great!!