Linkadage.com is offering a new client deal where you get two PR 7’s for $50 per month. If you go to their website, http://www.linkadage.com and click “new client deal†in the left menu, you can see the details. Is this a good deal? Can your site be penalized if you have some PR sites linking to your without having relevant content and essentially buy links for the sole purposes of ranking better? Thanks
No, although you should obviously be aware that off-topic links will send less visitors to your site and pass less PR to your site too. How will anyone know you are buying the links in the first place? Is it a good deal? It depends on what you are after - it may help you achieve a better PR for your site come the next update, but then PR is overated in my opinion. Personally I would prefer to spend that kind of money advertising my site in a way that would attract targeted traffic to my site.
I'm glad you put "think" as I didn't make it clear that it is an opinion rather than a fact. My reading on PR recently has led me to believe that google values links from related sites to be more worthy than ad hoc links from just about anywhere else. Searching on this and other forums will show many posts that agree with that view, as well as a few that don't of course. Overall though the consensus of opinion is that the search engines algo's are capable of determing the relevance of a link and apply more value to those that are more closely related to the site that the link points to.
I agree with Padawan that on-topic links help you more. They´ll (IMHO) add to the theme or relevancy of your site. I´m not sure I agree with the statement about how anyone will ever know that the links were bought... What was that directory that was going great guns then got penalised for selling links - Bluefind? If the site you are buying from makes an issue out selling the links then they´ll eventually go down. Probably the worse that would happen to you is that those links would be discounted. On the other hand, if you are buying advertising as opposed to links then you´ve got no worries. But who buys advertising for cars on a site selling baby food?
I saw the same post on seo chat.. Money would be better spent on some related links imo, not random pr7's... Aside from the relevance of the links you also have the 'is this natural?' doom and gloom.. ie if these links are going to be discounted, is there any point buying them in the first place? (... If anyone has made up a word which means brain washed by google feel free to insert it here :S)
I wasn't suggesting theme links weren't superior for other reasons, what I don't think is that Google currently pass more PR from relevant links (atleast at the moment). PR has nothing to do with the theme of a site, it's a mark of importance. Otherwise site's with PR10 would dominate every search irregardless of relevance.
And I wasn´t suggesting that you were suggesting ... oh never mind. When you say PR has nothing to do with the theme of a site, fair enough, but don´t you think that appropriate anchor text on a relevant site is given more credit than the same anchor text on an irrelevant site and therefore helps the linked site to appear higher in the SERPs for a particular phrase? To be honest I wasn´t really considering the PR aspect - more the ´is this a good deal´. Am I making sense or not? It´s hard to tell, I´m knackered. Two kids all day in a big shopping centre, overexcited, overtired - and that´s just me. Imagine what they were like when we got home.
If by credit you mean PR, I'd say no. If by credit you mean something else, yes. It really depends on your definition of credit. Perhaps my definition would AnchorRank in which PR is one factor, but the reverse would not be true.