Hi, Im looking to buy a few high PR links to give my site a boost. One site im talking to has a PR8 if you visit the url without the (www) But if you add the www to the url the PR drops to PR0 The webmaster keeps sending me the link with no www but im worried he is cheating in someway? Suggestions ??? should i buy from him.... pr8 = http://sitexxx.com pr0 = http://www.sitexxx.com
A lot of sites can have no PR when you type them in without the www. I suggest you use this tool to find out if the site has a fake pr.
Well.. It might be possible that he has promoted the site with http://sitexxx.com so that means that he is having all the backlinks to his site with http://sitexxx.com This is very normal and it happens. It doesn't mean that he is cheating with you.
Cheating you ? Surely not. I'm just wondering.. How much are you paying ? You shouldn't just consider that page's PR. The number of outbound links on that page are important too.
Yeah. The kind of link offered to you is also important. That site must have good traffic, choose the place of your link on top portion.
He is not cheating you unless he puts the link on the www page. also check the exact page your link will be placed at. A site doesn´t equal to a page. Homepages usually have higher PR as they are sort of traffic junction and linking top target, but if he places your link at some burried links page - maybe you are throwing your money out of the window...