How to tell if site has fake PR?

[FPForum]

Hey everyone..I recently purchased a few expired domains which I thought had PR's..I used this site to verify:
http://livepr.raketforskning.com/

when I put in just the domain.TLD I got 0's..but when i typed in www.domain.TLD it showed their Pagerank..But then someone told me my site's have fake PR? How can this be? What can I do in the future to make sure the expired domains I am buying have true PR? Thanks!

 

[mis_chiff]

Here is one to check fake pagerank with

http://www.namepros.com/fakepr.php

My site shows pr3 with www.
but pr0 without it. and I know it's not fake.

 

[B33R]

Check out my Fake PR guide, that should help you.

 

[nmr86]

its because people type in www.domain.tld

or it is linked that way to your site...

doesnt mean its fake

 

[mis_chiff]

Check out my Fake PR guide, that should help you.

Some good info there thanks!
Any idea how that happens with the www. and not?
and how to fix it?

 

[B33R]

Some good info there thanks!
Any idea how that happens with the www. and not?
and how to fix it?

Didn't I answer that question for you like 4 or 5 months ago?

If the links go to the www rather than the non-www then the www gets the PR (or vice-versa). You can forward the non-www to the www using .htaccess and mod rewrite.

It's the same method as when you fake PR, although it's not actually considered "faking PR" when you point the non-www to the www (or vice-versa).

I believe I offered to help you make a .htaccess file before to fix it.... the offer still stands!

Sending PM in a few minutes...

 

[mis_chiff]

Didn't I answer that question for you like 4 or 5 months ago?

If the links go to the www rather than the non-www then the www gets the PR (or vice-versa). You can forward the non-www to the www using .htaccess and mod rewrite.

It's the same method as when you fake PR, although it's not actually considered "faking PR" when you point the non-www to the www (or vice-versa).

I believe I offered to help you make a .htaccess file before to fix it.... the offer still stands!

Sending PM in a few minutes...

Yes you did, and you sent me the .htaccess in the email -
but remember my hard drive crashed like 1 day later and
I had to replace it. (of course I had no backup) so I lost everything.
I had forgotten about it till I saw this thread...lol
But thanks again B33R I have redone it correctly (I hope) this time!
repped

 

[1john2004]

I recommend
www.checkpagerank.net

 

[Rush]

The best is Seologs.com , most accurate IMHO.

 

[estibot.com]

The best is Seologs.com , most accurate IMHO.

Thanks for the useful link, rep added.

Their full-page pagerank check tool is cool, I have one site with PR 4, but I didn't realize that most of my category pages had a rank of 3! That explains why a lot of users are landing on those (also the keywords obviously).

My site only has pagerank for the non-www address, although I use a mod rewrite redirect so both www and non-www work. Doesn't matter I guess, I just hope most folks link without the "www"

 

[FPForum]

Lots of good stuff in here now..Thanks for the suggestions everyone I will try some of these others out and hopefully not run into this problem again!