I never really thought about it, but it seems that you can fake PageRanks. Now why would you want to do that? I can think of many different reasons but here is one of the most pressing ones.
I am sure that you have heard of people buying up domains and the reselling them for greater value later on down the road. These people are speculators, always on the look out for potential money makers. It is actually brilliant but not always a good thing for those who would need the domains later on.
Anyhow, one of the most important factors that domain buyers take into consideration is the current PageRank of the domain. If you have ever tried buying an existing domain, you would understand that one of the main reasons you would want to do so is that the PR is already decent. It would save you months of work and money as opposed to starting from scratch.
It makes perfect sense – unless the PR is fake. Yup, there are ways and means by which people can make the PR look good when in reality, there is no PR. Since that is not a matter of importance to us – creating fake PR – let’s not dwell on it. Instead, let us see how we can determine if the PR is legit.
I do not have much experience in this matter but I ran across a Fake PageRank checker tool. The URL is http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/pagerank.html. You can try it out yourself.
Do you know of any other way to determine the legitimacy of PR?
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Appreciate the tool!