Detecting faked pagerank

Question

Does anyone know how I would go about detecting faked pagerank in a php script im writing to run checks on a domain?

I understand that PR is faked when someone sets up a specific 301 redirect to a high pr domain exclusively for googlebots, but dont know how I would mimic this to check (I guess I would need the exact user agent?)

Thanks

why is this down voted? Looks like he is asking how to set up google's agent data in php — Andrey, Oct 12 '10 at 15:39
@Andrey: Probably because it wasn't appropriately tagged so it was hard to tell at a glance. — BoltClock, Oct 12 '10 at 15:41
sometimes it's hard to tag a problem properly if you dont really know what the problem is yet! :) — thatguy, Oct 12 '10 at 20:41

Ruel · Answer 1 · 2010-10-12T15:46:27.357

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Use GoogleBot's UserAgent, and visit the site with a script (or even from your browser). (If from the script) check for the HTTP response code.

Google Bot UserAgent:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

edited Oct 12 '10 at 15:46

answered Oct 12 '10 at 15:34

Ruel

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Thanks Ruel. Do you Think I should do this with Fopen? – thatguy Oct 12 '10 at 20:40

Detecting faked pagerank

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