Google PR - increasing backlinks

[adammc]

Hi folks,
I have just had a little idea / brainstorm and need some feedback on whether it will work or not.

There is a certain 'free' shopping cart software (very popular) available for all to use.

What would happen to my PR and backlinks if i was to email owners of stores running the software offering to pay a monthly fee to them to modify the shopping carts footer to say - "sponsored by - mysite.com

Of course, having a link like this would appear on every product page, possibly 100's of pages on there site.

If I had a few trades like this, could this really boost my google page rank?

[matt21811]

My opinion is that Google recently started heavily reducing the value of footer or off topic links.
This idea might improve your PR but I dont think it will help you in your position in the SERPS much.
Keep thinking.

[phantombookman]

you could also run foul with too many links from one site - unnatural linking/associated site

[Nuttakorn]

On-Topic Link will get more Pagerank value than Off-Topic Links. I have research this from my own site which has gained the links almost in on-topic link.

[Lorel]

If the links are in a database it won't help you anyway because search engines cannot gain access to databases.

[adammc]

Hmm ok..
Well guess I better ditch that idea.
Back to the drawing board ;)

thansks for the feedback guys