New Webmaster Question: PR & LinkSelling?

[squints]

Hi,

I am a new webmaster experimenting with various methods across a few of my developing sites.

I have an adult PR2 & PR3 as well as a mainstream PR4.

Regarding my two adult sites, they're both fairly new but the traffic to them is growing each day. I'd ideally like to sell textlinks on these two sites for 180/365 day periods.

Few questions:
1. Does PR still matter?
2. Does anyone continue to sell links?
3. How much value does a PR2/PR3 really possess?
4. Would you suggest trading links, and essentially using placeholders, until I can sell all my spots?

Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks guys

[patrique007]

pr is shit, doesn't matter. I wouldn't sell any links, as google is watching over natural link building. Placeholders for unsold links will kill your site. If sell/buy links, let it at least look natural.....mean ask a webmaster and put his in text or stuff like that, but NO Link like that in footer or sidebar. My opinion. Good luck

[CPA-Rush]

i think pr is important but traffic/backlinks are more important

u are lucky

[CPA-Rush]

u did any seo ? and what domain registrar u use ?

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pr is shit, doesn't matter. I wouldn't sell any links, as google is watching over natural link building. Placeholders for unsold links will kill your site. If sell/buy links, let it at least look natural.....mean ask a webmaster and put his in text or stuff like that, but NO Link like that in footer or sidebar. My opinion. Good luck

Thanks for the advice. Much appreciated

[remymt]

PR is and always will be important.

You can grow it with high quality backllins, that means you need link from website with a good rank.

[Claudiu_Radu]

PR3 is already chose by most webmasters

[Forestier3000]

addwords could help, but it could anger some visitors if there too prominent

[VipraDoot]

How can you convince someone to add your website link to his/her website without getting any return? How can this going to help the other guy putting your link? If you offer link exchange, this is also against Google's rule. Then what would be the way to gain link popularity when you can't buy or exchange.

If you're hiring someone whom you call "EXPERT", what will he/she do? - Begging for links!! ...when you hire, aren't you buying links in this way?!

Google left no way to build links and links are the most important factor to determine ranking and reputation of a website. Yes, going social is another factor but here too you're building links if you go deeper. In fact, web is itself build up by linking.