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Fake PageRank scam?
The PR is legitamate. But the site itself is bad, bad news. If you check whois, you can see the registration is only a few months old. So how did they achieve such high PR in such a short period of time? A very smart (and un-named) colleague of mine suggested using spyonweb to check the Google Analytics and Adsense code of this site to see what other sites it was connected to. Looks like it's part of a huge link network all owned or managed by the same people. (hint - use spyonweb to search for the Google Adsense code "pub-xxxxxxxxx") Regardless, the site is obviously selling links at the bottom of the page. Although Google doesn't catch all paid links, these are so obvious that anyone who buys them is at huge risk of a penalty. A smart webmaster would be wise to stay away from paid link offers like this.
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