oddsod - 8:09 pm on Dec 31, 2009 (gmt 0)

johnnie, serial sellers who set asking prices based on the PR of the homepage aren't selling "real" sites - they get their "sites" by scavenging dropped domains and patching with content retrieved from the wayback machine.

Nah, you don't need to sell sites to make money from PR. You don't even need to sell links ;)

(OK, the site in my profile sells about 5-10 text links a year, but the charges are based on page traffic, not PR)

Marvin, that's been my consistent experience. I was puzzled by how some pages were getting green with just an internal link till I setup an experiment and used Google Alerts to discover what was happening: Adding an internal link caused a scraper to navigate to the "dead" page and voila - new IBL! Yes, even a scraper's IBL has value: it's all the trigger Google needs!

[edited by: oddsod at 8:17 pm (utc) on Dec. 31, 2009]