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This page is from a competitor of one of our clients, and they are notorious for killing links to them on other sites. (I used to know an IT manager there who's staff was always on top of in-bound referals for legal purposes)
The only in-bound links are from their own ad banners which appear on very high PR sites like Yahoo... but the banners involve a redirect through the 3rd party banner server.
-confused-
do they have a relationship with google?
And yes, they do have a minor keyword advertising relationship with Google.
Which makes one wonder if PR can be bought.
Just besides, it is possible to allow google to spider paycontent by cloaking. If it's googlebot you allow to spider if it's a browser you redirect to the sign up page. There is another recent thread on this forum about that.
I'm a bit puzzled by this competitor of yours with the reputation for killing inbound links. Is there some legal way that i can be prohibited from showing a link to xyz.com on my site? i'd be surprised if this was the case.
This is comon within the brokerage industry. These firms are paranoid about what is said about them, by whom, and what "representation" it may imply to the investing public. SEC lawsuits have begun on lesser cause.
On to the topic at hand...
It's beginning to look like PR can be "bought" by buying the right banner or text-link ads on high PR websites. If this is true... shouldn't this be something Google should prevent?
Another angle on this is say this site has a bunch of pages with heavy inbound links and all of them link to the home page, this could account for high PR on the home page.
But you say this page has no inbound links. In other words this home page is not listed on DMOZ, Yahoo, etc? Does the page show up in Google with keyword searches?
Can you sticky me the URL because I'd like to see this.
I've since found some links to the high PR page on some still-active link farms. It doesn't explain everything, but it's beginning to make sense. As a matter of fact, the link farm page I found is seemingly being very risky, containing links for major sites in amongst the crop.
Interesting.
Please sticky me the domain name and I'll keep it to myself. I just want to see this apparently very strange animal. I promise I won't divulge your secret.
It may just be that the high PR link is to an internal page; so although it could pass PR around the site, it might be hard to find.
My prediction is that if he ever reveals tha name of this PR8 site, it will turn out to have over 1,000 inbound links and we'll realize there is no really mystery to solve. I surfed around and found a few PR8 sites among brokerage-type sites that advertise on Yahoo, and they all have well in excess of a thousand links reported on Google.
If they have 20 PR8 links to deeper pages, and these pages all point to the main page, then the main page could very well get PR8 while showing no backlinks, other than internal links within the site. And if they all have the same title or similar content, Google doesn't even show them all.... maybe 1 page, so it can be very deceiving.
[edit]woops: looks like ciml beat me to it ;)[/edit]
So please try to see if there are lots of low PR links to this mystery page.
Nope. In fact, Alexa is showing even less links to my main site's home page than Google.
I tested it only with small sites (PR5 and lower) and there it seemed to work for links from other sites. It looks Alexa always filters links from the same site. But also some links from other sites with PR4+ are filtered :(. Strange.
But WilliamI can still try to find out what it does on this mystery page. The data that IS displayed is supposed to come from Google.
I think this is a mystery that needs to be solved...and I don't think we should assume we are missing something...I have delved and delved for an explanation.....and can't find one...and I'll sticky the name of my competitor if someone wants to try to explain to me how they got their ranking....
