Oh please. Do honestly think a link isnt an advertisement? Most talk about buying links and the immediate thought is TABOO. There is a big difference bewteen buying 5000 index links on spammy irrelevant, 1 page site wonders and getting a link from a high traffic high PR site. You are wrong. The bottom line is if someone wants to purchase link on a high traffic site or an adword, both bring traffic.

Ok let us address this. Google has said do not buy links for PR. Hmmm. So if I buy a link on a PR 9 for traffic(I dont but lets say I do) whos to say its not for traffic? Not you nor Google can for sure say its for PR or traffic. I guess Google is going to penalize or discount a link I spend 25k/day on Yahoo home page? They are a PR 9, right? NO.

Yes and I could easily convert Budda as well. What merit does that have? In the very least it is prejudice.

Buying Advertising or links or whatever else to increase traffic is part of marketing. The goal to increase conversions. Since when have people lost sight of this? Just because Google doesnt like people messing with their PR? IMO that is Google's problem which is probably fixed now taking relevancy of the link for fixing it or not passing PR. I dislike irrelevant link buying as much as the typcial webmaster on this forum but to over generalize buying text links with added "PR 9" is just wrong.

PR doesnt mean anything to rankings. It hasnt for a long time now. If someone wants to buy a link for PR, fine by me, let them waste their money. It probably wont pass anyways unless it is relevant or a certain age.

DMC