dgessler - 5:44 am on Mar 1, 2008 (gmt 0)

I run a PR4 site which sells products. I'm actively targeting two keywords phrases which I have decent positioning for, and I'm looking to raise my Google rankings for them. It's so hard finding sites with relevant content who can link to me (partially because I run an e-commerce site and there aren't a huge amount of sites out there which are on the same topic as my site), and I'm assuming my competition faces these same problems.

The point of this thread is to question just how important site relevancy is in the backlinking process. My site has been on-line for a while, and is fairly established. Would you all say it would be smart to buy links from high-PR non-related sites? I feel like this is all that's left for me to do. I would be fairly picky on choosing quality sites which don't have very many other outgoing links.

Thoughts?

Thanks.