Page Rank 7 - Domain Authority of 6 (How does this happen)

[AndreVanKets]

Iv never seen this before, but what do you guys make of this?

http://www.becitywise.com/

According to Google, its a PR7 website.

SEOMOZ are reporting a DA of 6  (1 link to the domain)

http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

Any thoughts as to how or why Google have assigned such a high PR?

According to Whois, the domain was registered on 16/07/12 so its brand new...

The funny thing is, many people purchase links based on the Page Rank, so this guy must be making a fortune. (the Friends links I assume are all paid links)

Greg

[SEODinosaur]

It's probably a new domain that was 301 redirected from another site... Page Rank is passed to individual pages, therefore the PA can be higher then the DA. If my DA is 5 but NASA/CNN/ESPN links to one of my pages they pass their link juice to that page...

[kyleNeedham]

Hey Greg,

There are black hat ways to fake page rank, so never trust a site based on page rank.

[KyleChamp]

Also, Page Rank is only updated every 3 months.

[matbennett]

They have faked the pagerank.  Faking only works for the checkers - google isn't actually fooled by it.