They are Paying for Links

[jk3210]

Since there's an update going on this message probably won't get noticed until well passed the next Ice-Age, but I've been wondering about something: several of my competitors who rank below me (who don't have much in the way of content) have been paying for high PR links from a certain unrelated site.

Looking long-term, would Google frown on this sort of thing, or would they probably just continue to treat them like any other text links.

Just looking for opinions.

[edited by: Marcia at 12:51 am (utc) on June 16, 2003]

[mack]

I think it all comes down to, did they but a text advert or buy pagerank, Text adverts are something that is just part of the web. They do pass page rank but that is not the origional purpose. The fact that they are high pagerank pages probably means they are high traffic pages. The traffic alone may be enough reason to want a link.

Mack.

[eljefe3]

From what I've seen these links tend to be discounted now. However, a few months ago this technique worked very well and made a lot of people a lot of $$ by buying PR.

[ikeepdancing]

Any idea what the going rate is for buying a link?
I had somebody offer $$ for a link from my site, but I had no idea if it was a fair amount or not. At the time I had PR9 and they had PR6.

[tigger]

I suppose it depends how many other links you have going from your site but a text link from a PR9 site would be worth a lot, having never purchased one I couldn't give you an amount

[Marketing Guy]

I would say there are a few webmasters out there who you could name your price for a PR9 link. ;)

If the page has high traffic, then all the better!

Scott

[penfold25]

i think your PR is alot higher or equal to than some search engines and other high profile sites i seen on the net.

[ikeepdancing]

thanks for the inputs. though iam afraid it's rather moot at the moment as a big inbound link that i had has now withered away...and my juicy pr with it. though, it was an interesting experience in how just one big pr inbound can so greatly influence your own pr.