Hello, I was just wondering at what level of traffic and pr should you start selling links if that is your goal? I want to sell some links on some of my sites at some point but I do not know when to start doing so. Are the main factors traffic pr and maybe age of site? Also how do you price links fairly? Thank you for your help.
Depends on the buyer. I look at the site's content, direction, stability, traffic and so forth. Many just look at PR. As to price, put it at what you want. Fair has nothing to do with anything.
You can start selling links as soon as you make the site, though the supply/demand for getting someone to pay is a bit low in the beginning. I suggest starting with monthly sales and at a low price. Keep it small time, like the BST forums here. Put up a handful of links for a few bucks, and slowly decrease the number of sold links and increase the costs. Eventually you'll break even and then you'll start to rise again. As for price, marketjunction answered it best:
for me - i waiting until i got a decent PR (back then i was not that smart of a webmaster for my one site lol) and then i started to sell links - but now if u have decent traffic you can sell links too - or if you have a lot of indexed pages - but as above users have said - depends on buyer - i used to only look for people that look at PR only but i was wrong.
When your website have a PR 5 at least and 500 UVs per day, you can start selling links. Not to mention, your website must have nice contents
make sure you get the wright spots and not having to much links, i would not have more than 10 links for sale.
Depends on the kind of links and the price you expect. As Qryztufre said, you can start even just when the site is new; but the price will be low. Later you can get more. A good way to do it is to put a blog on a subdirectory on the site, and offer blog posts / links in posts for sale. Helps u get some revenue, also content to post, especially if the site links are related to your niche. You can sell front page or sitewide links later once the PR and traffic improves.
If you don't have much traffic then your main selling point will be PR, in which casse you would need to raise it to at least a PR 5 to make anything worthwhile.
When you have a nice pagerank link 3 or higher. You can check your pagerank by search at google "live pagerank" then the first link.