{"id":67,"date":"2006-07-05T10:38:18","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T09:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgregg.com\/wp\/2006\/07\/thetopsitesnet-stealing-pagerank\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T10:38:18","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T09:38:18","slug":"thetopsitesnet-stealing-pagerank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pgregg.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/thetopsitesnet-stealing-pagerank\/","title":{"rendered":"thetopsites.net stealing PageRank"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my earlier post<\/a> today I mentioned the site thetopsites.net.  They are offering a snippet of code to display your (Google)<\/em> PageRank<\/a> on your webpage.<\/p>\n

All very well until you look at the code provided:<\/p>\n

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Code:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
<a href="http:\/\/pagerank.thetopsites.net\/" title="Free PageRank\nMeter for www.mysite.com" target="_blank"><img\nsrc="http:\/\/pagerank.thetopsites.net\/r.php?url=www.mysite.com" \nborder="0" alt="Free PageRank Meter for www.mysite.com" \/><\/a><\/pre>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

and the warning "You should not change in any way the above code(except the url of your site) or you will be disquallified from this free service<\/strong>".<\/p>\n
Then you notice that they don’t use the now-standard rel="nofollow"<\/strong> property in the href or img src tags.  Put two and two together and you realise that their Free<\/em> PageRank monitor is actually donating some of your precious PageRank to them (because that is how PageRank works).<\/p>\n
Clever? Yes.  Underhanded? Certainly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In my earlier post today I mentioned the site thetopsites.net.  They are offering a snippet of code to display your (Google) PageRank on your webpage. All very well until you look at the code provided: Code: <a href="http:\/\/pagerank.thetopsites.net\/" title="Free PageRank Meter for www.mysite.com" target="_blank"><img src="http:\/\/pagerank.thetopsites.net\/r.php?url=www.mysite.com" border="0" alt="Free PageRank Meter for www.mysite.com" \/><\/a> and the warning … <\/p>\n
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