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Do you buy domains from people? Then you must read this. And if you don’t then you should still read this. Its something you should know.

Okay I know that a lot of people buy nice domains, build an “okay” site on it and then sell them. They don’t just sell them right away, of course. They get a nice PR first because the buyers want to rank high (or maybe buy the domain and then sell it for more). Well things like these are always going on.

But, the important thing is you need to watch out for fake PRs. No, I am not joking. You can put a fake PR on a domain. And I’m sure that there’s a lot of people doing it right now. So, how do you figure out which PR is fake and which one’s are real? Well just follow these four simple steps:

1. Find the domain you want
2. Go check out the site on that domain
3. Google this “site:www.YOUR-DOMAIN.com” and you should find caches of that site
4. Go check the cache. See anything fishy? Is it the cache for the site on that domain? Or a cache from a different site?

If you answered yes to step #4 then its a fake PR. To fake a PR, you basically redirect the Googlebot to a site with a high PR and it gets tricked. And you get the PR of that site. I’m not going to tell you how to do it of course, but you get the idea.

So, next time you buy a domain from someone remember to do this. Good luck! Oh and don’t forget to share your experiences with us. Like if you ever bought a domain with a fake PR (or maybe sold one?).

You know what an Alexa rank is, right? If you don’t then OMG! Don’t worry I’m just joking. Its basically a rank given to a site according to their traffic.

How Alexa gathers info

Maybe you don’t know about this. It calculates the traffic rank by monitoring the sites their users go to. But, what if a lot of your visitors don’t use the Alexa toolbar? Oh then your rank will be pretty bad. Their method of collecting traffic info sucks. There are probably better ways to collect it.

How to boost it

Its pretty simple. Just install the toolbar. Go to your site often and set it as your homepage. And also ask your friends to do the same. If you work in an office or school then install the toolbar on all computers and you know the rest.

Cybercafes! Go to a few cybercafes and make friends with the manager or owner over there. Make sure that they start to like you and stuff. Then ask them to install the toolbar on all computers and set your site as the homepage. If needed give them some money.

A really nice trick. Alexa doesn’t care about the IP. So take advantage of it. Make a stupid page on your site and code it to refresh it self every 30 seconds. Just get the toolbar installed and every 30 second it will count as a visit. And make sure that there is no AdSense on that page.

And of course, social bookmarking. Get people to digg or stumble your site. There are also other autosurf softwares, but I wouldn’t recommend you using them since Alexa could ban you and so will AdSense (they will think that you are trying to get fake page impressions).

Where it stops

Once you go around 100,000 you can’t use these tricks to go up anymore. You’ll need real traffic to increase it. There’s just too much competition around 100K.

And don’t really worry about Alexa rank. I’ll post about that later. And if you have any other tricks then feel free to tell us about them.

Update: Just to prove that this works, Whooked’s Alexa rank jumped from 800K to 300K. And so did my blogs. Not bad, huh?