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The first thing I notice about these sites is they all have PR3 and PR4. These sites are nothing more than php template sites with very little information on them, many say Under Construction on them. They have no ranking in Alexa and aren't listed in the ODP.
The final straw was finding a website with a PR5 that has broken images and almost 0% content. Not only that, their homepage is just their title and a link, just like this,
Welcome to ----- ---------- StoreEnter Here
I did a whois on this website and find out the owner of this website is a guy I went to college with, he was about 40 and was a real sob. He doesn't even have a website email address but uses a free online email address.
This is the only page by this website company to have a PR5 so it's not getting it from any of it's other pages.
How can a page with broken links, broken images, and no content get a PR5!?
Should I report it? If so, to who?
Any else ever see anything like this? Sorry to keep going on but this is quite baffling. Like I said, my community is pretty rural and the only other website within 100 miles of us to have a PR5 is the local newspaper which has been in business for 100 years and whose website has been around for about 7 years. The local paper website also updates it's website with 4 new articles daily and still only has a PR5.
How can a page with broken links, broken images, and no content get a PR5!?
1 backlink from a higher PR page that didn't link anywhere else would do it.
Here is the source for the PR5 homepage,
<html>
<head>
<title>----- ---------</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content="">
<meta name="description" content="">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"><link href="/default/css/default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head><body topmargin="50%">
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><td><div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Welcome
to ----- --------- Store</strong></font></div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><div align="center"><br>
<br>
<br>
</div></td>
</tr><tr>
<td><div align="center" class="link"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="/default">Enter
Here</a></font></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</html>
Seriously, thats it.
If someone doesn't believe me and wants to see proof, feel free to sticky me, this is nuts.
the owner of this website is a guy I went to college with, he was about 40 and was a real sob.
PR not affected by these variables either ;)
I wouldn't worry about this and keep working on your own site. It can get frustrating when you put a lot of effort in and still feel like you're behind, but keep at it and things will work out for you.
