Originally Posted by Garrett

Not if you insert the domain URL into a database, and use the ID:
http://urlrate.com/embed/1234.gif

Then they can't fake it, you can also check if the referrer address is the same as the URL for that ID, if it isn't you can return a "FAKE IMAGE" instead of the site rating. And instead of running all those queries again, insert the site value, rank, etc in the row instead of having to regenerate the image every time. Hell, you can even possibly save that image in /embed/images/1234.gif and just check if there is already an image for that site, and return that, and don't even do a database call.

Also: http://urlrate.com/index.php?url=htt...aweirdtld.this , you should check the tld before anything.