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In a DigitalPoint Forums thread, a member asks how to check for an invalid PageRank. This is a timely question given that there was a PageRank update earlier this week. Since you can fake your PageRank, it's good to have the right tools on hand to verify PageRank.
Danny at Search Engine Land just wrote an incredible authoritative guide to PageRank and highlights some points that still need to be reiterated: PageRank really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things and it is only one measure of "importance" for your site but isn't updated all too often and thus shouldn't be considered heavily.
Still, a bunch of tools were offered to check the PageRank of a site, and I will be linking to them below:
- Live PageRank: Checks your PageRank on all of Google's datacenters
- Verify PageRank: Checks your PageRank and verifies its legitimacy
- Fake PageRank Detection Tool: This one is currently not working, but the coder says he's trying to get it fixed so I'm linking to it in hopes that he will.
- Check Fake PageRank: This tool also checks your PageRank and verifies if it is valid.
How do you ensure that these tools are accurate? You can also do the easiest check:
Best way is to check manually on IP which shows updated PR.info:domain.com
If results are nothing or url(s) which doesn't match original then something is fishy if only 1 url is returned and its same then its 100% ok.
Discussion continues at DigitalPoint Forums.
Comments:
Pratheep
05/04/2007 07:48 am
I think the first tool is the best one, all the other three is not showing PR from various IPs... But anyway thanks for the list :) Pratheep
Michael
05/04/2007 03:57 pm
Livepr doesn't check all datacenters there is tool at http://www.digpagerank.com it can check on all ips. check it out.
tony scott
05/12/2007 01:25 pm
Does PR matter anymore. I think we should look page content not pr.
Jan
11/13/2007 03:21 am
The "fake" PR thing shows everything is fake. My sites are all completely html. I couldn't fake a PR if I had to. They all show fake. NOT a good tool to be listing as accurate....
filipina
01/10/2008 04:03 am
These "fake" PR checkers are not always correct but they do help a lot. I use http://www.digpagerank.com the most.
No Name
06/10/2008 04:49 pm
<a href="http://www.digalexa.com/">alexa tool</a> offer real alexa information, and it updates everyday than alexa offical.
Geniu
06/12/2008 03:39 am
dude the last one sucks balls it shows fake pr even for google, yahoo, msn, stumbleupon, from what i know google.com is owned by google itself and they probably know everything about PR than anyone else and they wont be stupid to give fake pr10 to themselve. im talking about the crappy textlinkadvisor remove that shit dude
Mr Hank
08/28/2011 10:17 am
I tried for my website : http://www.ninehank.com it's cool !