Big Sites Lining Up to Sell Google PageRank?
Here's an interesting discussion about a major web site selling direct text links, which some people think is another way of selling Google PageRank ratings -- Looking at the FoxNews website, I noticed peculiar looking links on the front page under the "advertising links." Many of these are direct links to business sites. One can look at them two ways. Fox is selling PageRank or they are, in fact, just selling small text link ads. My gut tells me more is going on here than just selling text ads. For one thing, there's one link there that says - "Buy This Link" The wording on that raises eyebrows. Also notice that the second link in the left column has a PR7 thanks to Fox's PR8. However, only 14 backlinks show up for that site. There are more examples of this among those links. According to the company that is selling these links, and it is listed among them as 2 different but similar urls, links are being sold for $500 to $5,000. However, that company has a Gray Bar on both of its sites. Maybe Fox is not intentionally selling PageRank, but this company which is contracting the sales of these links know what they are doing when they are selling these links. [Discussion thread: A PR8 site selling pagerank? - WebmasterWorld]
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