Link buying survey

Hi,

I am doing market research of the link trading market.

I found a number of sites that sell links, Their prices are different.
I would like to get more opinions from the seo professionals.

Lets say somebody offered you to buy link at PR 0 page.
This page has your keywords inside, so it is content related.
This page could be a post in the forum, article or home page.
This page is not link directory. The link will be displayed at the footer.
What is a minimal and a maximal price you are ready to pay for a month ?

What is a minimal and a maximal price you are ready to pay for a month
in case of PR 1/2/3/4/5/6/7 page ?

How much money you are ready to spend monthly for buying links ?


Thank you for your time.
I will really appreciate any response.

You can reply to this post or send me email privately to
shtirlitz AT unixwarez.net

you can check out text link ads brokers such as text-links-ads.com yourself.

A link is worth as much as what the buyers are willing to pay. I would say give it a good shot at modest pricing, present the buyers with facts and the price....

1. If you have a lot of demands and you are running out of spots quickly, increase the price slightly
2. If you are not getting any buyer, try to advertise the fact that you sell links first. If you are still not getting any buyer, may be you need to lower the price.

You can also try linkadage.com (link auction place) to get some idea.

To be safe, stay away from using PageRank as foundation for setting your price. I would stick with traffic, number of pages, contract length, link popularity, etc. Interested buyers can look up your PR and Alexa Ranking easily enough.