Google PR Fraud?

[raveon]

I'm pretty sure this is a fraud (PR 7 in IE) but how is it done?

http://www.dreamweaverhowto.com

1. all other pages on site have PR 0
2. FireFox shows PR 0 for home page
3. Home page uses a JavaScript redirect
4. using link:www.dreamweaverhowto.com shows 2220 links but none of the pages that I checked seem to contain a link to this domain
5. using site:www.dreamweaverhowto.com shows 0 pages indexed by Google

 

[tgo]

Very odd domain, Seams like a pr7 but if I search google for it, it is not found. Also if you click the "try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: dreamweaverhowto.com" It states PR0 on the toolbar

Google Search

All pr checks and toolbars I used state PR7, just that one way I could get the PR0.

Checked it here and it detects fake PR, but since google has no record of the site it cant verify.
http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/pagerank.html

Overall I would say its fake.

 

[raveon]

Thanks tgo,

This is the javascript contained in the "real home page" (not index.html). Don't know hat it's doing though. There is also a standard refresh tag.

<script language="javascript">
var url = window.location.href;
if (url.charAt(url.length - 1) != "/")
url = url + "/";
var s = url.indexOf("//") + 2;
var e = url.indexOf("@");
if (e > 0) {
var atpart = url.substring(s, e);
var newurl = url.substring(0, s) + url.substring(e + 1 , url.length);
window.location = newurl + "~" + atpart + "/";
} else {
window.location= "/index.html";
}
</script>

 

[gazzip]

Hi, probably because it has 4,601 incoming links - I did a small website for an artist friend that rates 4/10 and it has far less incoming links. JMO

Current Rankings:
PageRank: 7/10
Alexa Rank: 184,138

Incoming Google Links: 2,220
Incoming Yahoo Links: 34
Incoming MSN Links: 2,347
Incoming Alexa Links: 0
Overall Incoming Links: 4,601 (Overlap is possible - Estimated 4,001 unique links)

http://www.urltrends.com/viewtrend.php?url=http://www.dreamweaverhowto.com

 

[danno]

info:www.dreamweaverhowto.com

Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.dreamweaverhowto.com

I wouldn't trust it.

 

[ridesign1]

I have a similar problem with one of my domains, I bought a domain last year which hadn't been registered ever before and I have never forwarded the domain ever, I have upto 2800 incoming links and pr6
however
when i go to: http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/pagerank.html
it says it a fake pr and states another website.

Now i am totally confused why my site has fake pr if I have never forwarded.

 

[harkster]

This is for sure 'black hat' stuff. It is a way to do some redirecting for whatever reason.

click this:
http://[email protected]

BTW raveon how did you determine the 'real home page'?

 

[ridesign1]

This is for sure 'black hat' stuff. It is a way to do some redirecting for whatever reason.

click this:
http://[email protected]

link doesn't seem to work

sorry i am a bit of a newbie could you tell me what "black hat" stuff is?

thanks

 

[harkster]

link doesn't seem to work

sorry i am a bit of a newbie could you tell me what "black hat" stuff is?

thanks

black hat is commonly used to refer to spammers,hackers who have have bad intentions.

The script mentioned above preforms a redirect to whatever follows the @ by stripping out everything between the http:// and the @ and opening a new window.

When I do it with my Firefox browser I get a warning but IE just gives an error.

The warning from FF is -- You are about to log into the site "www.google.com" with the username "www%2Edreamweaverhowto%2Ecom," but the site does not require authentication. This may be an attempt to trick you.

so it appears there is more going on than just a redirect.

 

[ridesign1]

hark thanks for the info.

One thing I am confused about is that with my own domain: http://www.quakeinasia.com
I have never ever forwarded it, so I can't understand how it has happened.

If hark or anyone could shed some light that would be brilliant

thanks

 

[iWonder]

http://seoblackhat.com/2005/07/26/how-to-fake-a-google-page-rank-10-or-any-pr-you-want/

 

[ridesign1]

http://seoblackhat.com/2005/07/26/how-to-fake-a-google-page-rank-10-or-any-pr-you-want/

I am still confused how this has occured on my domain, as I have never done a 301 redirect.

Could it be a mistake in the system?

thanks

Just an update,
I have looking at my site through various sites, and have realised that when google views my site all it sees is 1 word theme, and no other content, I wouldn't be suprised if google see's a 301 redirect to the other site.

I installed a contribution for phpbb to show me when bots come to the site and how many pages they go on, I assume this has something to do with it, and wouldn't be suprised if all other websites using this contribution are all having a 301 redirect to that website.

Also my 2 of my sites was hacked after installing that contribution so I wouldn't be suprised if that has something to do with it.
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[ridesign1]

Does anyone know of any websites which allow you to see the html source as google see's it?
as i have used submitexpress but that only shows the tags google see's

thanks