How To Fake Google PageRank?

Although many professional SEO experts agree that the Google PageRank has little to do with the actual performance and rankings of a website or web page, many webmasters still focus on getting high PageRank when it comes to link building and website promotion.

What Is PageRank?

According to Wikipedia:

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of measuring its relative importance within the set.

How To Fake The Google PageRank Of A Website?

The Google pagerank of a web page can be faked with a combination of 301 redirect and cloaking. The flow is as follows.

1. When a Google search engine spider visit a web page URL, the web server redirects the spider to a web page with high PageRank.
2. Google assigns the high PageRank to the page with the redirection because it thinks that those pages are identical.
3. When a reader like you and me visits the web page, the web server does not apply redirection.

To us, the web page looks like having high PageRank although it hasn’t. You can see the PageRank in Google’s toolbar. This method doesn’t really increase the rankings of a web page in the search engine results. It just influences the PageRank display in Google’s toolbar. Google doesn’t like this method at all as it considers this as a spamming method.

How To Check If A Website Has A Faked PageRank?

If you suspect that a web page might have fake PageRank, you can always use the following simple method to check.

1. Go to Google and search “info:domain.com” (without quotation marks, replace domain.com with the domain name that you would like to check)
2. If there is no result returned or if the returned URLs don’t match with the original URL then it’s likely that the PageRank has been faked. If Google returns only one URL for the query and it’s matched with your original URL then the PageRank should be okay.

Why Should I Care About Fake PageRank?

Some people don’t care about PageRank but some people do really care about it. Google gives different weight on different type of links. For example, if you have a link from a PageRank 7 to your website, Google will assign more weight to the link with PageRank 7 compared to the link with PageRank 2. For me, I don’t really care about RageRank. My strategy is just building as many links as I can and as long as the link source is not from spamming website.

Conclusion

Don’t just focus on the PageRank value when you are building external links and promoting website. You should try to get good rankings for related keywords and phrases which bring you real traffic. You should also stay away from fake PageRank website and don’t waste your SEO effort when you’re implementing SEO.

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