Buying Links

Pr6

[Wired Suzanne]

I have the possiblillity to buy PR6 links. (Put an ad on a PR6 page).

Can anyone tell me how to estimate a new PR.

Example: One site has PR5
How many PR6 links do I need to get PR6?

And for a site with PR4:
How many PR6 links do I need to get PR5 or 6?

[mil2k]

No one can give you an estimate about the PR. Also how do you know it's PR 6? By the Toolbar? The Google toolbar is nuts. You can try and instead see how many backlinks the site shows (in google and Alltheweb). The more the better. It means it has it's own reputation. HTH :)

[Wired Suzanne]

>>the Google toolbar is nuts

Thanks for the info. You must be pretty frustrated in these days....

No one can give me an estimate? I remember someone posted somewhere about (in theory!) 10 backlinks of PR(?) is similar to 100 backlinks of PR(?)

What about PR(A)=(1-d)+d*(SUM((PR(I->A)/C(I))?
Should I throw it out of the window?

[tigger]

just out of interest how much are they going charge you for the link

[Wired Suzanne]

We are thinking about posting an ad on the front page of a #1 newpaper, next to the ad of our competitor.
Hopefully this will give some good clickthrough rates.
However, the price is very high. I wonder if it will improve our PR at the same time. If we will getter a beeter ranking in Google, than we can save the same amount on AdWords. In this way the costs are same, results better.

[johnnydequino]

Wired Suzanne - page rank was just updated this morning. See if that PR6 site changed.

jd

[Marcia]

And see if that page is actually passing on Page Rank. There's a rumor floating around out there that some pages can have and show PR but not pass it on. An unconfirmed rumor, but nevertheless worth thinking about.

[Wired Suzanne]

Wow! PR7.
Now it's definitely worth it.
Thanks for pointing me at the update.

Most of my backlinks dropped I see. I guess I good use a good PR7 link now.

Thanks all

[netcommr]

If your 'text link' is on the domains root index, that should pull a lot of weight. But, check into what Marcia is talking about by checking the other links PR. One thing to consider is that when you drop the ad and have relied upon it for rankings, you will loose it much faster that you gained it.

[mil2k]

If your 'text link' is on the domains root index, that should pull a lot of weight.

I agree. Put your most important Keyword into it. ;)

[dougs]

Watch out....what appear to be Pr7´are not always PR7´s. The world is strage at present.

Doug

[robertito62]

> I wonder if it will improve our PR at the same time.

there is also rumour that PR is not as relevant as it used to be. Traffic from that link might be good though.

[dougs]

Go for the traffic everytime.......but make sure that advert does have some nice text links for the PR.

[netguy]

I'm assuming all the excitement here is for a PR7 anchor text link [without redirects or NoFollow robot tags]...

If I were considering a link that the "price is very high," I would probably wait a few days and let the dust settle. Backlinks are still bouncing around, and almost 25% of our sites are moving (up or down) up to 2 PR levels.

[nakulgoyal]

I agree with dougs and NetGuy. PR is moving FAST. I got PR3 to PR6 in around 2 months. Got some links 2 months back for my clients website and it is PR6 now.

But before getting happy for the client I need to wait for some time and watch if it actually is PR6!

[AmericanBulldog]

My advice would be only buy links for the traffic, if you think the traffic will convert it's worth it, consider your ranking gain to be secondary

[Imaster]

And see if that page is actually passing on Page Rank. There's a rumor floating around out there that some pages can have and show PR but not pass it on. An unconfirmed rumor, but nevertheless worth thinking about.

I think this may become true in the near future. Btw, I have seen some sites which are linking to some really sick unrelated sites from almost all their pages (which clearly suggests that the PR have been bought). On one of such site, I clicked on a sponsored link and the linked domain redirected to an affiliate program stuff and bombarded me with several pop-ups. If you want an example, sticky me.