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Will the PageRank of the Website Drop?

March 4th, 2006

After writing my previous post about validating pagerank I thought to myself that I also need to explain the following problem where sites with a real pagerank is for sale, but with one big problem being that the pagerank is likely to drop after the next update.

What you need to be aware of, is that there is another kind of scam where sellers try to sell high pagerank sites, but the high pagerank has been obtained through few links on very high pagerank sites of their own, or that they just have access to, and those links are likely to be removed after a sale. Here is an example:

• Some guy has a website (A) with a good pagerank let’s say 8.
• He wants to make some easy money by selling another website (B).
• So he links to website B from website A.
• After the next toolbar pagerank update website B will most likely have obtained a REAL pagerank of 7.
• Then he puts it up for sale on some forums where someone ends up buying it.
• After the deals is through he removes the link from website A
• The next time Google measures link popularity (NOT the toolbar pagerank) website B has a pagerank next to zero.
• So the website that was bought is worth almost nothing - based on pagerank.

I’ll just repeat yesterdays tip: “The next time you’re valuating a website based on its pagerank. Check if the pagerank is real and that it is not likely to drop after the next update.”

Tags: link popularity, website pagerank, website valuation, pagerank scam

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