In the textbox used to reply to these threads, it clearly asks "Please do not spam. No site-specific talk is permitted outside our Marketplace. Do not refer to your site by name nor link to it."

It seems to me that the previous reply does exactly that.

That aside, I'm sure their company is a fine one (besides the fact that several of their links either don't work or don't have anything behind them -- I just checked).

I focused on cost factors in my previous post. But, IMHO, in the end, and as much as costs matter -- it's less about costs and more about developing and encouraging caring, trust-worthy relationships (unless you don't mind a lot of re-work)!

Please understand, I'm not trying to make statements regarding the previous post, or about their company -- which I know nothing about. My point is simply that I can buy services. But, caring, trusting relationships are a quite different.

:cheesy:

is page rank really important i've a site around 20,000 unique per day ,Members: 105,191 ,but page rank still 1

I personally think PR is important is not for anything else it adds to the brand value of the website and passes as an authority website by google. We are currently a PR6 website and trying to reach PR7 i personally think the only way we can achieve this is by buying some good PR7-8 links.

Hi,

Yes, you are correct, PR is not a important factor. Don't try to increase your PR, instead you try to add relevant one-way links with good anchor text

If I understand pagerank correctly:
Keywords are on google already have a prcached list of results.
Pagerank ties in (not including the other factors) because recently cached results are closer to the top(compared to less recently cached). A higher page rank means that you are cached more often and are more likely to be at the top.
Popularity only improves page rank because more people would be likely to link to your page as well.

The links from valuable websites is of course a great thing for page rankings. But it is rather difficult to get such links.
I would like to offer other approach. First of all - unique content. There could be more than 500 hundrands words in one page and 3-4 percents are the keyword you want to rank good. Moreover it is useful to bold one of them. Next important thing is to add one (of course the more the better) page to your website per week. Of course with unique content again. Finally one two links (PR2 PR3 enaough) to your page.
After half a year you will have PR4/PR5.

I have one page with PR 4 and 7 links in it. I noticed that better pagerank had that inner pages those content was unique. The inner page with content of several words got PR1.

Makes sense to me! To para-phrase one of Google's founders;
"Every time you create a link,” Google founder Larry Page told the hushed audience, “you’ve created a citation. But if you just try to count citations on the Web, which is what a lot of search engines do, you run into problems.

" The important of a web site, particularly a web page, is based on the sum of all pages linking to it. That if Yahoo linked from their homepage to your homepage that’s a big deal."

I have a website and I got PR 6 after 2 years of hard work!
But in these days I've noticed it goes down again to 5! whyyyyyyy? :-(

Register your page to a lot of toplists. If your working hard your PR will be very hign.

That definitely won't help your PR.