How much to pay?

One way link sales

[mm1220]

Anybody have any idea what the going rate for links on:
PR7, PR8 pages are?

Should one expect to pay / charge more if the link is an exclusive outbound link or if the pages are related?

[figment88]

Since the market is somewhat underground, prices vary widely. Also, prices seem to have gone down quite a bit lately as more players have enterred the market and some buyers are taking a wait and see attitude to recent Google manuevers.

My best guess (and I'd be happy for others to supply more data):

PR8: $200-$500/month
PR7: $50-$300/month
PR6: $20-$200/month

Number of outbound links definately affects price.
Related content doesn't seem to be important.
Controversial topics may not be accepted at all or require a premium.

By the way, I have bought or sold links. I have merely investigated market for my own curiosity.

[johnser]

I'd be interested to know what people would be willing to pay once-off for 1-way links guaranteed to last at least a year.

How much is is worth to also know that the link is verified daily on your behalf?

Considering prices such as $150 for PR7 on the various link broker sites, what would you regard as reasonable?

Assuming PR7 page with no more than 20 outbound links, I think I'd be willing to buy for maybe $300 once off.

(No stickies with offers thanks!)

[graywolf]

I'd be interested to know what people would be willing to pay once-off for 1-way links guaranteed to last at least a year.

I think that would be a dangerous deal for both parties. Most deals I've seen from one to three months. Yes the prices have come down dramatically, in the past few months.

[mm1220]

I presume that none of this is dealt with in a legal way, with contracts etc and is just a case of emailing and wire transfer of money?

[graywolf]

I presume that none of this is dealt with in a legal way, with contracts etc and is just a case of emailing and wire transfer of money?

Surprisingly enough there is still 'honor amongst thieves'.

[alika]

contracts ...hmm, maybe not. but an invoice would do.

[liushiping]

Too expensive .

[rj87uk]

So what about an on topic page rank 5 link with under 15 out going links all ontopic links and text?

[nalin]

I think pricing on text links is as much subject to the benifit they provide you as it is to their page rank.

We buy a number of advertisments on third party sites - for a pr8 with decent alexa traffic we might pay $150-200

For a pr5 with significantly less traffic but with a heavy dmoz "resources" type backlink relevant to my industry, few or no outbounds, and significant relevence in title and text $250 would be a steal (well not literally a steal but we would - and have - paid more).

The thing is that the first link *might* be benificial whereas the second *will* be benifical. The second is relevant and targeted and draws an audience which wont hesitate to purchase my widgets, it is (arguably) literally an advertisment rather then a purchase of pr, the same cannot be said for that untargeted pr8 hiding on a page as best it can.

Given the limited availability of the second type link and the fact that we activly solicit them the vast majority of webmasters can and will charge one heck of a premium, but its well worth it because it draws visitors and relevance as opposed to a spider.