Remember the “Buy a Pixel” sites? Basically, you buy a set of pixels and you get a link back to your site. Supposedly, there was some PR love that would be sent back to your site and you would move magically up the SERPs. Right.
I jumped on that bandwagon back then and I even bought a PR6 site and started selling my own. Of course, I never made but a few dollars and within about a month my site was clipped by the Google machine down to a mere PR1.
So at the time, the slide hurt but there was some very valuable lessons learned.
1. Links are not the same.
2. Never say forever.
In my opinion, a link is a link. But there are levels of strength associated with links. I believe, Google has a little data item in their DB called Value. And when that Value, in your domains DB record at Google, equals zero, then any links from your site has little to no strength.
So what makes up a value of zero. A link from a Sandboxed website, a non-indexed web page, or how about a known link farm? I don’t know.
What I do know is that the higher a domain name or web page’s PR rank is then the less likelihood that its value is zero. So if you have a web page that currently sits at a PR3 then you could make a few bucks by selling a link.
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