Google PageRank is obviously important to many webmasters, advertisers as well as Google itself. Recently there is a big scam going on out there about faking pagerank. The victim of these scams are normally new webmasters. Sometimes this fake pagerank even trick professional webmasters. I will discuss some easy ways here how you can check a website/domain for a valid Google Page Rank or a fake page rank.

Google PageRank™ is HEART of Google search technology. This is one of the controversial topics to many webmasters including me. Page Rank is also consider as one of the biggest mistake of Google. Recently many domainers and site owners are trying to attract buyers and advertisers by showing fake pagerank on their website or even in Google toolbar. Some of these such sites were discussed publicly in these following posts:

1. TagsPage.com and it’s fake PR button
2. Beware of fake PageRank at Codezwiz.com
3. Beware of fake PageRank at domain auction of Keywordwidget.com

As you can tell from all these posts, it is important to learn how to check a valid pagerank of a domain or website. You CANNOT always trust Google toolbar for valid pagerank.

How to check a fake pagerank? OR How to check a valid pagerank?

• Step :1 ) Check the Google tool bar (). Because some of website just add fake pagerank button or image on their website. So, if you have the active Google toolbar, you will notice the difference.
• Step :2 ) Check to see if the page rank showed by Google tool bar is a temporary glitch or not. Use popular iWebtool pagerank checker tool (or http://livepr.raketforskning.com/) to make sure all the Google data centers are showing the same page rank for the specefic domain or website.
• Step :3 ) Check to see if the website or domain pagerank is suspicious or valid by widely used SEOlogs’s fake PageRank detection SEO tool and PR checker .
• Step :4 ) Lastly, check few back links (use link:websitename.com command in google search box) manually. This step is very vital because, by following this step you can tell if the domain is using any redirection to achieve fake pagerank or not. Once Google shows all the backlinks in search results page (SERP), click on label “Cached” beside URL. It will show you the Google’s cache of that URL.

  After you reach one of those Google’s cached page, click to view the source code (Click View>”Source” or “Page Source” from your web browser’s menu bar) of the webpage and search for the domain name you are trying to check for valid PR. If you do not find the domain name, try another URL from the search result page. If none of the URL shows the domain name in their source code, then you have to come to the conclusion that the domain or website you are checking valid pagerank for, used URL redirection to get fake PR.

I hope this will help you to find a fake pagerank and a valid page rank whether you are planning to buy a domain/website or advertise on a website.

Note: Some additional tools to check valid PR.
1 ) Page Rank Verification Tool