Selling Links (or Selling Out?)
Believe it or not this blog is a PR5 blog. I never really put much thought to it but since I took on blogging as a world domination plan fulltime profession I’ve harnessed its PR5 magic more than a few times. It’s quite amazing I tell you. Now I’m no expert when it comes to SEO but how else would you explain techfresh.net jumping from PR0 to PR5 in less than a month? peepculture.com was even better at PR6 under the same time frame. I know it may sound like a dream but do you have a better idea? Google PageRank is like rocket science to me but it sure did me favors without having to fully understand it. Maybe I’m delusional but it seems now since we have a network of high PR blogs all our blogs are growing at a substantial rate. But we all need more traffic all the time, don’t we?
Well I came up with an idea. I’m sure I borrowed it from somewhere but I can’t remember now. What if I were to share my PR5 mojo with other people for a small token? I would spread the love with a nice outbound link and people can repay me with a few dollars or a link back. What do you think? No this isn’t an attempt to extort readers or anything, think of it as more of an experiment. If your ranking picks up in a few weeks/months (given you seek other incoming links from other sites too) you can pat me on the back and treat me Starbucks. If not you can stick a finger behind my back and get on with your life.
You know I didn’t mean that.
But anyway I’m more interested in what you guys think, rather than the actual execution of this idea. Would selling links help the blogosphere at large, or would it turn into another petty money scheme?
July 14th, 2006 at 12:04am
Actually, you stole this idea from the likes of W3C and WordPress. Google has a name for it actually, its called link fraud. It can get all sites involved banned from the Google index. Although W3C and WordPress are still in there because they paid Google a ton of money and promised not to do it again. But most sites just get banned without the option of paying.
July 14th, 2006 at 6:20am
Oh yeah I forgot. More to the point of your article. If everybody sold links, wouldn’t that just screw up ranking by relevance and make your search results only show you the sites with the most money? I’d rather see what people link to without being paid for it.
July 14th, 2006 at 10:23am
Woa really? Do you have some URLs for me? This is interesting, I never really thought about it in that perspective because I still believe that money can’t buy everything. Most sites won’t sell links anyway so this wouldn’t work as a whole even if a lot of people are doing it. For example, despite what you may think from what I wrote, I’ve turned down companies wanting to buy links from me, and all you see from by blog(s) are free links so far, exclusive to friends and real affiliates. So I guess I’m just luring for controversy!
July 14th, 2006 at 3:32pm
All the controversy aside mate, sounds like you’re making a real impact with your blogging profession. Wish I was still part of the game, life in London simply wouldn’t allow it though unless I was making enough to pay the bills
PEACE!