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Stop Obsessing About PR
I recently received an email from a new user that illustrates the problem with link buying and why it doesn’t work for most people.
His question went something like this: “I searched for my anchor text ****** and I did not find any PR5+ links”
Here is a summary of my response and the LinkXL position on buying links because of PR rather than relevance:
“We specialize in links in relevant content and have well over 1 million pages in our inventory. In general, sites with deep content (1,000s of indexed pages) have PR0 pages on their inside pages unless the home page has extremely high PR and the page with the content is no more than a click or two away from the home page.
The focus of LinkXL is not buying links with high PR, but buying natural links in relevant content. Buying a link on the footer of a PR5 page is easy, pay a webmaster with a PR5 site to put your anchor text on his page. The only problem is footer and sidebar links rarely work, and if they do work for you, how much longer before you get tagged as a link buyer? I would much rather have relevant contextual links with low or no pr for $1-$10 each than an expensive footer links that may get me in trouble with the search engines.
LinkXL is a whole new approach to buying links. Think relevance, not PR, for best results.”
Eventually we will succeed in educating the link buying public, but since we know there will continue to be PR obsessed link buyers out there, we still try and show the PR for our search results. However, we strongly suggest you buy based on relevance, not the pagerank of a web page. The SEs will be happier and so will you.
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