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Excerpt: Recently, a rumour was circulated by Marcus Tander – aka Mediaadonis (a marketing consultant) that if you apply a the word hyves as a sub-domain before your own domain name it would show you whether you had been given a penalty for selling links. If it showed as PR 7 in your PR-meter, it was okay.  If it was a PR 4, then your site had a penalty against it. It could also be PR 0 if you were banned. At the time it seemed quite bizarre that this would work but many were posting about it.  It is good…