Posted on Monday, 18th August 2008 by Jeff
A few weeks ago somebody posted on a forum warning people about a Google Pagerank scam that’s going around. Basically, some people have figured out how to hack the Google Pagerank tool on your browser to where the PR is higher than it actually is. After the scammer sets up a few websites with fake PR, they’ll find people with related websites and offer them a link on their homepage for a special price. After you’ve paid them the amount their asking for, they’ll take your hard-earned money and include your link on websites that are actually a PR0 or PR1. By the time you’ve figured out the scam it may be too late to get your money back.
If you’re somebody who is trying to build up your Pagerank, this might be something you would go for. Honestly, I don’t approve of buying links to increase your PR and feel that it really doesn’t help out your website. Building your PR should come naturally over a period of time. However, this scam can also be used to get you to exchange links with a supposed high PR website. To prevent this from ever happening to you, you should always check a website’s PR by using a reliable tool such as PRchecker.info. If if the tool on your browser is hacked. this tool will show you a website’s “real” Pagerank which is impossible to fake.
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