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So would you like a link to your site coming directly off the homepage of a site with a Page Rank of 5?

I know I do!

And what if I told you it had an Alex ranking of just over 100,000, would that stir your interest?

I was doing a study of a web page that was ranking No.2 in Google the other night for an affiliate product that I promote. I couldn’t understand how a one page sales page was ranking higher than my page consistently. The only site ranking above it was the actual merchant’s page!

So I opened up SEO Elite and started an analyse of the site’s backlinks … when the software returned it’s results it was suddenly very clear why the site was ranking so well … It had a PR5 backlink, infact it had a bunch of incoming links from the PR5 site!

It had one from the PR5 homepage itself, and also a link from every page on that site! Beyond that it had some links from one forum (around 20 posts) and that was about it … so the PR5 link was providing enough juice for this outstanding ranking!

Now this didn’t surprise me, because I know a PR5 link from a related site is worth a ton of PR1 or PR2 links! How many no one but Google knows, but I think the table at Kenkai.com is probably not far wide of the mark!

For example the table suggests that you would need one PR5 link to achieve a PR3 of your own, but it would take 555 PR1 links to achieve that rank! (other factors such as outbound links and relevancy obviously affect these numbers, but its a good indication)

So I guess the answer to the question above is “YES, I would love a PR5 backlink please!”

Ok, so how much would you pay for a PR5 link directly from the PR5 home page?

Mmmmm … trickier question maybe?

Well you can have one on the site in question for only $50 per annum! Now I think that is a steal … one sale of the affiliate product I’m promoting above would more than recoup that!

So I’m going to invest in a link for definite! (In fact it’s actually a banner advertisement rather than a text link, but a very powerful one) …

If you’d like to know the site offering the link advert, I’ll tell you it if … you sign up for “List Building Riches” above, and forward me your confirmation email … not only will you learn a bunch of stuff from my free ebook, you’ll get the chance to make your best $50 investment online ever!

As for SEO Elite, its another one of Brad Callen’s tools, I used to use it to find link partners, but these days I have enough sources of one way links, so I use it more to find potential JV partners and to analyse the linking strategy of other sites so I can copy them!

If you want to know the PR5 site, get a free copy of LBR and send me an email!

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