How to fake Google PageRank numbers

[blink]

The web sites used a relatively simple trick. A known loophole in the Google algorithm is that a web page that redirects to another web page will get the PageRank number of the redirected web page.

A web page that redirects to Google.com will get a PageRank of 10 because web surfers that go to the redirection page will actually land on Google.com which has a PageRank of 10.

To get a high PageRank number, a web site must just redirect to Google.com (or another page with a high PageRank) when the Google spider visits the site. This is a technique called cloaking.

is this true?

regards

Blink

[cbp]

Yes, but it has absolutly no affect on your ranking. Cloaking gets you banned.

CBP

[sfowler]

I presume the idea is to use it short term to get high PR link partners, then drop it, hopefully in time. Don't do it, it is really not a good idea.

[bhartzer]

I wrote about this a while back here.