Hey I just checked the link sales service area and asked some people to pm me their sites as they said that they had good pr sites so when i visted those sites they were out of content that ie low amount of content and the domain is not even related to site so why do people with crappy sites have good pr and people with really good sites that are updated daily have low pr is it because those people trade links with higher pr sites as u look at it they make a link wheel as they create a site and pay others to have their links on their sites and then when their site has good pr they create another site and place link on that site so why doesnt google catch these crappy sites I know some people may say that this thread belongs to google section but the topic is related link building
Did you check the page pr yourself, or better yet check where they ranked in SERPs for chosen keywords? My knee-jerk reaction is that people are frequently full of crap, especially if they hope to make a buck at your expense.
You will find that many link sellers buy expired domains with PR and then stuff it with random/crappy articles linking to their clients' sites. A link like that is still good for SEO, but those sites receive very little traffic. If they do, it's probably not very targeted for you.
Spot on, most domains are PR expired domain though I don't agree they will have a good SEO effect, if the original content was not on, the PR they currently have is just a snapshot PR from the past
Page Rank is now static, the displayed page rank is not absolutely the exact Page Rank. A crappy site is still a crappy site and will be valued as such, forget it's pagerank, it does not matter.
Quite true. I recently got a PR4 site that had just expired in a niche that I wanted to target, and it was incredible to have this PR while I just had a few pages and was still building the website... However, with the new Panda algorithm this is not likely to stay true, many crappy sites got badly hit. I jumped ahead in the SERPs quite unexpectedly, so i hope they roll out Panda soon to the rest of the local Googles, I need a boost in my multinational SEO...