Buy and Sell Advertising Space

**FreeVideoCodes** · 04-25-2005, 02:50 AM

Hello,

I am selling a text link on GetVideoCodes.com. I can not disclose the Google PageRank on this forum however I HIGHLY recommend you check it out yourself

Let's just say, it's very high.

Anyways, our site has 3,480,000 backlinks according to Google. PM if intrested with bid price (selling links per month only)

Regards,

**wazoo** · 04-25-2005, 03:10 AM

i'm not sure you're aware of it but i don't think the backlinks are correct

http://www.google.com/search?q=link%...en-GB:official

it says both google and macromedia are linking to you, but i can't find a link to you on either of those pages listed?

infcat i can't find your link on any of those pages listed?

and somehow yahoo and msn don't have you in the index at all!
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Get...b-t&fl=0&x=wrt
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?F...videocodes.com

i'm sorry, i'm not trying to interfere with your sales but there's something not right here! intentional or not, as i said you may not have a clue what's going on either.

**zman** · 04-25-2005, 03:15 AM

He is using a re-direct.

This is a scam and I hope a mod or admin catches it and closes this topic.

**wazoo** · 04-25-2005, 03:44 AM

and submits his site to google via a spam report

**Padawan** · 04-25-2005, 04:15 AM

He's also trying to sell the site off as a PR10

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/showth...120#post143120

as if

**Boston_JM** · 04-25-2005, 08:20 AM

yes not any one with a half of a brain would not pick this scam up i mean for real wake up we are not born yesterday

**Xxxxxpp** · 04-25-2005, 01:54 PM

quick question: how can you see he is using a re-direct? And how does this trick work?It just sounds very weird that google can be tricked into giving a pr-10 so easy. And last: is this only with pr-10 this way? or do I have to watch out too when I'm looking for lower pr sites?

**xFrozenxSoulsx** · 04-26-2005, 04:07 AM

Well the thing that turned me away is when I checked his stats on Alexa.com his site is not even listed... =/

**Mattd** · 04-26-2005, 04:50 AM

To answer your question Xxxxxpp, he is using a redirect trick as described on the PR hacking thread on this forum:

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/showthread.php?t=21979

Basically he uses a redirect to trick a googlebot into thinking that the backlinks to another site are his.
He has also tried to sell this domain but the moderator TPWinky closed the thread. In theory you can claim any sites backlinks are your own by using this but obviously most people opt for a PR 10

**Mattd** · 04-26-2005, 05:09 AM

To answer your question Xxxxxpp, he is using a redirect trick as described on the PR hacking thread on this forum:

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/showthread.php?t=21979

Basically he uses a redirect to fool a googlebot into thinking that the backlinks to another site are his and therefore gian its PR.

If you type "link:www.google.com" into google to come up with all the backlinks, what a surprise you get 3,480,000 links, the exact same number that he claims to have.

(He has also tried to sell this domain but the moderator TPWinky closed the thread.)

In theory you can claim any sites backlinks are your own by using this but obviously most people opt for a PR 10 ranked site.

As discussed on the PR hack thread above, the trick only works on toolbar PR and I do not think that you get search engine advantage of that high PR. Even if you do Google discovers this trick after another update and corrects it (probably penalising the site in the process.)

MattD

**Xxxxxpp** · 04-26-2005, 10:56 AM

Thanks, Mattd, now I know at least what to look out for.