Website PR 7 selling for $10,000?????

Wolfpeek · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-2004, 10:23 PM

I was nosing around another forum where they had websites for sale. They had websites with a PR of 7 selling for over $10,000. I also read that folks will pay $100-$150/month for a text ad on a website with a PR of 7. Is this true? Boy, I gotta work on my website!!!

xmx · #2 (**permalink**) 07-21-2004, 02:54 PM

I can confirm you that there are services selling
text links on high PR sites for those prices.

It happened me to visit a couple of them, and the
PR7 and PR8 links cost more than $100 a month.

I don't know anyway if they have a lot of customers,
but if you find 10 or 20 of them, in a year you can
pay back the $10'000 price you saw for a website
with PR7.

Quite important is to consider that in that case is
more important how the website has been developped
to fix such a price, and not the domain name itself.

intelliot · #3 (**permalink**) 07-22-2004, 03:28 AM

Yes, but this is highly risky in my opinion. Webmasters are beginning to see how insignificant PageRank is becoming, and Google at any time could pull the plug.

xmx · #4 (**permalink**) 07-22-2004, 11:03 AM

I personally am not crazy for PR.

Anyway I see so many are.

Many webmasters consider PR crucial for their
link exchanges strategies.

I will not pay money for a link only for its PR
and know the majority of webmasters either will.

Selling high PR links is in my opinion a small
niche.

smakyyy · #5 (**permalink**) 07-24-2004, 06:42 AM

One mans junk is another mans treasure. some may not like the page rank but some do - and if there is a buyer out there - a seller is born :-)
i would not spend money on getting a link from a pr7 site. but i do see people selling links from similar sites - but i would not put money in to make a website to get that high a ranking just to sell links to others. if you devote that much time to a business of your own you will do a lot better then the 10 grand.

keywordguy · #6 (**permalink**) 07-29-2004, 08:58 PM

Page Rank is only one factor in the SEO process with Google. I have seen good links pay off for my customers and I have seen purchased links do very little.

I agree with a previous poster...that relying on PR to determine what you pay for a link is risky when it is very easy for Google to pull the plug.

Additionally, other factors can be far more important like unique visitors, page views, etc.