Buying PR

[MarkJH]

If a site was selling link space on a PR 8 site and you wanted to buy a link to a PR 6 site. Would the value of the PR 6 site go up to PR 7 or is there more to it?

[AmericanBulldog]

definite maybe. However, regardless of the new PR rank for the old PR6 page, you would get the benefit of better ranking and referrals from the PR8

[rfgdxm1]

Links on a PR8 page (not site, but page) are worth a lot. If you can buy a link on a PR8 page dirt cheap, DO SO NOW. If it ain't dirt cheap, then you need to evaluate the worth of that link.

[petehall]

We have 18 PR8 links and 100s of PR7 links pointing to one of our sites and I believe this has only increased our site from a very high (all pages) PR6 to a PR7.

16 of the PR8 links are from the same site, however they do not sell "blocks" of links / advertising so its of very high quality.

I have no idea whether the PR7 is high or not, as I am using the Google directory as a point of reference.

I wouldn't expect a jump from PR6 to PR7 upon purchase of a single PR8 link... especially if they place a lot of text link advertising on the page.

Not forgetting that it's been so long since the last update, the page may no longer even be a PR8 anymore.

[MarkJH]

I wouldn't expect a jump from PR6 to PR7 upon purchase of a single PR8 link

But even if it didn't push it up to a PR7, it would still be a higher PR6 and push search engine results further up, wouldn't it?

Also, is there a trickle-down effect on linking from a higher PR page to a lower one throughout the rest of the site?

[steveb]

One link from a PR8 page will usually make a PR7 page (and of course beenit all the pages you have linking from your new PR7).

It is possible one link from a PR8 could make your page a PR8, and it is possible one link from a PR* micht only make your page as little as PR5 or 4, if it is a low PR8 with hundreds of links on the page.

There is no generic rule. The PR a page with PRX passes depends on the amount of links on the page and how high or low a PRX it is.

<It's possible the page might not pass PR at all, and even likely if you are "buying PR", but that is a different issue.>