buying an AD on 3000 websites

PageRank advice needed

[4crests]

I am considering purchasing advertising from one of those companies that has over 3,000 unique domains. They offer free email accounts in your area of interest. So, if you were into red widgets, and your name was Mike, you could get an email address like this [e-mail].

Besides email, they also have a unique website for each of the 3,000 domains they own. If I purchase advertising, I would get my Link on 3,000 pages. Each page just happens to have content that matches my content perfectly. However, the pages only have a PR of 1.

I currently have a PR7 and 1080 links on google.
Would another 3,000 PR1 sites benefit my PageRank?

[crash]

Not necessarily, with the last update there appears to be a diminished value to external links (meaning that a site with a 1 probably doesn't count much if at all) - without reviewing what your describing - I can only hazard a guess, but I wouldn't do it for PageRank, I would look instead to it's own traffic value in relation to your own site.

[conquer7]

hi Crash,

Is PR5 more valuable and beneficial than PR1?

[mack]

PR goes from 1-10 with 1 being bad and 10 being the stuff dreams are made of.

Pr5 is middle of the road but is still pretty difficult to acheive.

[heini]

The first thing to ask would be if the links would go out straight or as redirect urls.
Redirect urls seem to pass on PR, but only if the come from high PR pages.
The effect of 3000 PR1 links (that is coming from PR1 pages, don't know how many other links sit there) is hard to evaluate at this point, but if the pages are on theme and the link text is good it could be worthwile.

Main thing is redirected or not though.

[4crests]

they are regular links, not re-directed. They are on topic, and should be worth it to me just for the business they will bring. It would be a great secondary benefit if this will help my PR. I just don't want to do it if it could somehow hurt me. Anyone else have any input?

[web_india]

4crests, are those pages still PR1 with apparently some recalculation of PR going on?

[Napoleon]

4crests.... it's a gamble in my opinion. A firm that has 3,000 sites of offer links from. Hmmm. I'd like to know a LOT about the nature of them before I entrusted the fate of a PR7 site to them - you have quite a lot to lose.

I'd be very careful if I were you.

[Tor]

I completely agee with Napoleon. From what you are explaining I would stay clear of this 4crests. There is a real danger that it could destroy the PR that you have achieved for you site.

[crash]

;) I thought that sites linking to you can't hurt you.. or else there'd be a mighty big rush to link to competitors from spammy sites ;)

That said, I would use caution with an offer like that.. if it sounds to good to be true it usually is.. removing the search engine factor, if the traffic itself can be beneficial to your site by itself it can be worth it.

[vitaplease]

they are regular links, not re-directed. They are on topic

On topic maybe, but really unique?

Is the content identical on each of the "on topic" pages?

Problem is by mentioning it here, it looks like an easy thing to track down for Google.
There was the bad neighborhood PR0 linkfarm. Now add the PR1 link agregation?

I am probably only jealous.

Not for Pagerank, you seem to have enough and this will not add anything substantial to that. For on topic anchor texts it might help for some inner less competitive pages..

[4crests]

Thanks for all the advice. I absolutely don't want to do anything wrong. That is why I am asking for advice first. The sites are new to the web. They are still PR1 after the last update. all 3,000 sites have unique URL's and are on topic for my site. It is like having a seperate site/url for 3,000 kinds of Widgets. They show up well in google since nobody else has a dedicated page for Fuzzy Yellow & Green Widgets. I really don't see anything wrong with what they are doing. Even if they were kind of spammy, would it hurt me? It seems that Google's policy is to not penalize for this sort of thing. Otherwise my competitor could sign me up for this kind of thing to get me penalized. I seem to Remember GoogleGuy saying something about this.

However, just to be safe, I think I will give it a try with another site that I own. If it works well after a couple months, I will change it to my PR7 site.