Pagerank 4, no inbound links

Hey guys,

Just wondering how this can happen? A website I was looking at has pagerank of 4 (shown on chrome pagerank extension), but looking in site explorer sees no inbound links and the link:<website> in google search only shows 4 links from pages on the same site.

Is this possible or this fake PR?

 

Make sure the Chrome PageRank Extension you downloaded was legitimate, a lot of Google Extensions don't even function the way they should and are just in the marketplace for the promotion of their own website.

If it is legitimate it's possible that Google and Yahoo Site Explorer are in the middle of updating the inbound link count for that website as well.

 

can you share us the site url??? maybe the site got a good links in all 4 back links that shown in google.

 

yes please share the URL so we can look at it and be able to answer your question.

 

It could be fake rank, it could be a very, very old site, it could be a dropped domain that has since lost its backlinks but retained its PR.

We can't know without seeing it.

 

you can always check the backlink, with realprcheck.com,
i usually do a pr check before purchasing any backlinks

 

Share the URL,we'll check it with you.

 

Could be a fake rank - its easy to get a fake rank .. Just redirect a sites URL (only for the bots) to a URL with PR of your choice . Say u have a PR 0 site and want to make it appear like a PR 6 then you can write a a code which will see if a visitor is a BOT or a real human using the IF condition . If it is a bot then 301 redirect to ezinearticles.com if human then no redirect. So naturally since all PR checker tools are bots they will show you the PR of ezine articles which is PR 6 and for a real human he will still stay on your site while the bot has already took a trip to ezinearticles and fetched their PR instead.

 

Hey guys,

The url is desoptions.com

Following on from techlunatic's answer .. what you're saying really makes sense.. I was wondering how you "fake" pr. Not that I want to .. I think its absurd but handy if you're looking to buy links (like myself!). I guess you can check the redirect by spoofing the user agent and seeing where it takes you

 

Really its wondering how it could be possible?

 

It may be fake PR.
Please check whether its using 301 redirect.
Can you please share the url here? So we could check it and give you proper the answer.

 

Hi Sherone,

Just did. A couple of posts back. Its desoptions.com

cheers

 

Page rank does not only depends on the links to the site it also depends on the quality of the content and the website. There may be links from the pages to the website that is not shown in Google search you can cross check with yahoo site explorer search. it will show you all the back-links that the page posses.

 

Note google calculates page rank depending on the unique pages and keyword relevance to each page if the entire site you mentioned focuses more on a single keyword and regularly updated then google will obviously give it a high page rank.

I once got my blog which so very fresh that it was only 12 days old and every day updated with 5 articles all from a free content network which was posting articles on behalfs of me every single day at different times of the day. But now such content networks have become duplicate content house. So i check every post often to be as unique as possible.

 

Using realprcheck.com the website comes up with Fake. I guess it must be using the redirect thing?

 

Not redirecting for googlebot either .. used the firefox useragent add-in. REally odd

 

google may use several factors for measuring the page rank other than the number of backlinks.

 

that site need to rewrite its validity check code, it even say that digitalpoint.com pr is fake! i found it amusing, a good laugh

 

why you don't share with us the Domain Name. After that we will tell you the exact result ..!!!

Cheers,

 

The site had a handfull of backlinks coming from high PR sites. The domain was also in the financial niche so just being in that niche with good content and just a few really good authority BL There is no doubt that at one time it was a Real PR 4 site at one time. But now that the niche and content is not Financial anymore all the PR and great authority has gone down the Sh!t tube