Advertising on a PR7 site with many pages

Do multiple pages matter?

[ACDelco]

I'm considering advertising on a PR7 site with a text link. This site has over 5,000 pages and my text link would be on each one. It's some major dollars for the advertisment.

My question is: Is having a text link on the same PR7 domain that has 5,000 pages (all PR7) better than advertising on a different PR7 site that only has a few pages (all PR7)?

Perhaps the answer may sound obvious, but if I can get the same exposure to Google on a PR7 site that only has a few pages, I could save some dollars.

[bcc1234]

I doubt it would help.
Otherwise a link arrangement like that would bring you
5000*PR7=(something around PR9).

And I don't see that happening all over the web.

[ACDelco]

I am in a very competitive category and this one site shot all the way to the top of Google. The only thing I can see that is different than the other competitors is that he is advertising on this big PR7 site with a major keyword. He has a good site, but not much different than the rest of us. (basically the same content)

The site that is listed high in Google has backlinks that are almost exclusive to the big PR7 site that he advertises on. Makes me wonder.

[Visit Thailand]

ACDelco - I may be wrong but something smells very fishy.

5000 pages on a PR 7 site and all 5000 pages are PR 7?! That sounds wrong, are you sure he is not using frames?

I am uncertain but I cannot see how any site with 5,000 pages could maintain PR 7 on every page.

BTW how much are they charging?

[digitalghost]

If we can drop the PR consideration for just a moment and think about the link and the purpose of the link we might be better off.

First, you pay for a link on 5k pages, if those pages receive decent traffic and you have decent anchor text those links will drive traffic to your site. If you have really good anchor text, you'll get the holy grail of web traffic. Targeted Traffic

In other words, people read the link text, and wanted to click. They qualified themselves with a mouseclick. That is definitely the kind of traffic you want.

Now think about presence. People don't habitually land on the index page of wesbites. No matter where people arrive at this person's site, your link is there.

On top of all that, TB PR isn't PageRank. That little green bar is causing more problems than it is worth.

My .02 ;)

[ACDelco]

I should have been more specific. This site with 5,000 pages is actually about 9 sites that are linked with a similar theme: programming, CGI, DHTML sites. Also, some pages are PR6...many are PR7.

Here's the site: <snip> Look at the bottom right and you'll see a bronze column that says "advertise". There are several text links there. If I can get in the top 10 of Google because of this, it's worth the dough. I'm looking at this purely from a Google PR perspective. The site's audience probably won't be to interested in my products. Thoughts?

[edited by: ACDelco at 6:10 am (utc) on Dec. 5, 2002]

[chiyo]

>> Thoughts?

Yep, this is pure paying for page rank, and something which Google's gaggle of Phd's are working hard at reducing the value of. Both you and their site is at risk medium to long term i would think.

[Visit Thailand]

I would forget about it, if you really want to spend that type of money find a small site which fits into your site in someway and offer them 2000 for X and see what they say.

The site you showed has so many links on it anyway it would not be worth it, and from my little bar it is greyed out.

[born2drv]

Definately not worth it now, since you made the site, placement and $$$ known to GoogleGuy... we all know what happened last time (ahem.. SK) ;)