SEO Junkie

Detecting a fake PR is fairly simple. If you think that a particular site is showing a fake PR, then simply take a look at its cache version on Google.

For example, http://www.pr10.darkseoteam.com/pagerank-5.php is showing a PR6 and you want to confirm whether they are showing a fake PR or not.

To do so, you go to Google and run the cache: command as follows:

cache:http://www.pr10.darkseoteam.com/pagerank-5.php

OR

http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache%3Awww.pr10.darkseoteam.com/pagerank-5.php

Either way, you will see the cache of http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/. That means that the site in question is most probably faking its PR6.

In addition, they are either doing a 301 / 302 redirect to http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ directly or using cloaking.

To find out whether it is doing a 301 / 302 redirect, you have to look at its HTTP Header. Go to http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php and type in http://www.pr10.darkseoteam.com/pagerank-5.php and press Submit button. You will see the following:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK =>
Date => Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:01:35 GMT
Server => Apache/1.3.33 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a AuthMySQL/4.3.9-2
X-Powered-By => PHP/4.4.1RC2-dev
Vary => Host
Connection => close
Content-Type => text/html

It shows that the site is NOT doing a 301 / 302 redirect since the HTTP Status code it is returning is 200 OK. So, it is doing the redirect via Cloaking. It is only redirecting the GoogleBot to http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ with either a 301 or 302 Status code on the basis of its IP address or User Agent field.

It is an indicator that http://www.pr10.darkseoteam.com/pagerank-5.php is faking a PR6.