Affiliating with companies for how much?

Currently companies are approaching me asking to be linked on my site.

Now I'm undecided about how much money I should take for a link and for how long they should be linked for how much money. Whether I should take a one-time-payment or a monthly fee. One company is also offering me free webspace in return, though I don't know yet how much.

So, since I'm new at this, but would like to work with companies, also being interested myself in promotion and having worked with companies already promoting their sites - I'd like to know what you think, what suggestions you'd make. What could be a fair deal for me and the companies?

This kind of topic can result is some very heated posting about the value of PR between the many google seo "experts".

I was talking to some of the other guys here last night and we decided it was too hard to figure out a good formula so we just decided the best price is what the market is willing to pay.
You know supply and demand stuff.

So to get the ball rolling for you I think a three key-word text link from your front page bottom left hand corner would be worth about $100 per month to our affiliate network.
If I thought your site was about affiliate marketing and would be sending targeted traffic I would increase this price but as the surfers will not generally care about me or my company I’m just paying for PR.

Off the topic a little - you'd probably make better money placing a targeted advertising link in the same spot. If you can't find a good ad to target with even a debt consolidation (for example) link would only require 10 forms to be filled out to bring a better financial return for you.

Thank you for the answer.

Um I guess they look for posts like this - whoops.
Generally they can't tell and there have only been a few cases I know of where an entire business model was based around selling PR.

You should just sell text links. If the advertiser want PR - that is up to them.

Yes, I've seen one page today that said all they were doing was selling PageRank, but that page had PageRank GreyBar. ;) And I did not plan on giving away more than textlinks.

I'm not even a big fan of this kind of marketing. Ever sense Google released a version of the 'boogy bar' which displayed PR, webmasters have worked themselves into a pink fit over it.

Yes, you may be right about that. Though I guess with a high rank also your visibility on Google improves.

case in point http://www.marketbanker.com

hmmmm.... Instead of selling space or PR I would utilize it myself.... I have a ton of ideas that I would love to implement and I feel that I can earn more with quality PR than anyone is willing to pay me for it.

Ask 'em to swap links with ya'.... you'll get back more than ya' give.

Yes, swapping links would be great, too, though I guess companies would hardly swap links with a blogger.

I also thing that link swapping is a good idea as it will increase your link popularity, helping you to improve your sites results in google.