Good one juniper. If you have money, buy links. If you want money sell links. If your site is useful to users they will come. If your site is not useful, links don't mean anything
unless i have a well established readership / visitors to my site, i will have to bend before Google Almighty.
Well it looks like lots of people don't care and many others are going to go stealth mode. Not the desired result for Google.
I was just thinking as I read this thread, google are fools, they have now reduced PR on lots of sites, this makes it cheaper for me to buy links now, as webmasters cant demand such high prices, the result is that I have more money to spend putting my links on other sites. Google I stand up and applaud you. Google is single handedly responsible for creating the most spam on the internet. links = serps = spam sites for links adsense = less content means more click throughs = spam sites just with adsense Content = long tail serps = bulls*$t content that makes no sense. I could go on forever, they have created mayhem because they had no sense in looking to the future first. Think like a spammer and solve the problem its simple. Dont ask me for a solution as it would take time money and expertise. All that google have at their disposal.
Prices will not necessarily come down for paid links. Its all about supply and demand. If there are less sites selling links and less high pr sites then supply is low which may push up the price if there are still buyers. For existing paid links that lost pagerank, these links should be cheaper then before the update as google knows the site is selling links and the juice that the site will be passing is probably not much. but if your buying for traffic, Pagerank shouldn't matter.
I agree with gazzerman google has well s$%£$ the system up. It was fine before where you had to pay a premium for high PR backlinks but now PR is heaily reduced accross the board it means cheaper links and more money for more links and vast numbers of links = high serps position and poor serps content! more and more crap is leakining into the search engines. Good example it to try finding a hotel in a major city you have probably 2 or 3 actual big hotels listed and about 50 pages of spammy directory listings that just dont need to be there all trying to get to the top with heavy on site adsense or other ads booted on there.
As long as it still generate significant revenue, I will still sell links from my sites, though a bit ninja like.