In theory one could hack the code to display any number they want. Making the widget link to a third party service that displays the rank as well, makes it more trustworthy. The used service should be configurable in case it ceases to operate. Some other considerations:

  • The used service should take an appending domain in the URL to query, so that the PageRank for the referring site is immediately shown and the visitor does not have to type in anything.
  • It should look clean (not stuffed with lots of ads or other irrelevant info).

FEEL FREE TO ADD PR CHECK SERVICES IN THE COMMENTS THAT FULFILL ABOVE REQUIREMENTS. THANKS.

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lolandese commented
Status: Active » Reviewed & tested by the community
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Patch provided that adds a configurable URL on the settings page. If empty, no link is used.

By default the service of domaintyper.com will be used as it respects the above requirements. Try it with http://domaintyper.com/PageRankCheck/drupal.org. Feel free to add others that are more or less clean and take a trailing domain to query in the URL.

No link target attribute or rel="nofollow" has been added as it is easy enough to use a module for that. It has been tested and it seems to work well together with the External Links module.

Thanks.

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lolandese commented
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed: http://drupal.org/commitlog/commit/51470/0ee7b1e9165f34dc376e7f5a7908735...

PLEASE, ADD OTHER 3RD PARTY PR CHECKERS BELOW THAT TAKE A TRAILING DOMAIN IN THE URL TO QUERY. THANKS.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.