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\"AvoidWith links on high page ranked pages often selling for a lot of money, some website owners have been using black hat SEO techniques to give their site a fake Page Rank.\u00a0 What this means is that whilst their website may only be a PR1 or PR2 it appears to be higher such as a PR7 or PR8.\u00a0 To prevent yourself from being scammed, it\u2019s a good idea to know how fake page ranks work and how you can ensure you are only buying or trading links from true high Page Rank websites.<\/p>\n

What is Page Rank?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Page Rank is a numerical value that Google gives to every web page.\u00a0 This value is updated every few months and is in theory meant to tell other webmasters about the quality of the page.\u00a0 Google Page Rank numbers go up from 0 to 10 with ten being the highest rank available.\u00a0 Each level is harder to reach than the one before it.\u00a0 Due to the influence of Google Page Rank some unscrupulous webmasters will fake their page rank in order to trade links with other high authority sites or to make more money from the links that they sell.<\/p>\n

How Can Page Rank Be Faked?<\/strong><\/p>\n

As with many things on the web, black hat SEO techniques get developed in order to try and \u201cblindside\u201d the search engines.\u00a0 It is incredibly easy to fake a Page Rank and all a webmaster has to do is redirect their webpage\u2019s domain to that of a higher domain.\u00a0 By using a cloaking code webmasters can set their webpage to only re-direct when a GoogleBot visits the website, so a normal website user would not be able to tell that anything dishonest was happening.<\/p>\n

Whilst you may be thinking of also faking your website\u2019s Page Rank: a word of warning.\u00a0 Website\u2019s that fake their Page Rank will not be indexed in the Google search engines.\u00a0 So whilst you may be able to scam people into buying links, you will be doing your website more harm than good in the long run.\u00a0 In addition if you fake your website\u2019s Page Rank in order to sell your website you could end up facing legal action for fraud.\u00a0 You are much better off increasing your Page Rank using tried and tested \u2018white hat SEO\u2019 techniques and staying away from anything that can be considered \u2018black hat\u2019.<\/p>\n

How to Check a Website\u2019s True Page Rank<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you are thinking about buying or trading links with a high Page Rank website, you are highly recommended to verify that the Page Rank of the site is as high as the webmaster makes out.\u00a0 To do this you can use a Fake Rank Checker Tool<\/a> which will validate the true Page Rank of any website that is entered.\u00a0 All you need to do is enter the website URL of the webpage you want to check, and the website\u2019s true Page Rank will be revealed.<\/p>\n


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