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The 4 major factors that should be considered to calculate the price of a link on a certain website are PageRank, traffic, niche of your website and link position. Some points have to be cleared before I’m going to explain how these 4 factors influence the price of a link:

• websites with high traffic and low PageRank prefer to buy links on high PageRank sites
• websites with low traffic and high PageRank prefer to buy links from high traffic sites
• websites with high PageRank and high traffic usually don’t buy links or buy expensive ones on other high traffic and high PageRank websites
• websites with low PageRank and low traffic prefer PageRank to traffic, so they will look for high PageRank sites
• websites that buy links to increase PageRank usually are not interested in the position of the link
• websites that buy links for traffic give much importance to the position of the link

PageRank

Many webmasters use only PageRank to determine the price of a link. The higher the PageRank, the higher the price of a link. Usually people that sell links for PageRank can start doing this if they reach PR4 or more. PR0,PR1,PR2 and PR3 links are very hard to sell if you don’t recieve a lot of traffic and your links are not placed in a good position.

Here is price list based ONLY on PageRank of links and on some research I did in the link sale section of Digitalpoint:

• PR4: 6-10$/month
• PR5: 10-20$/month
• PR6: 20-40$/month
• PR7: 50-150$/month
• PR8: 150$-250$/month

I can’t say much about PR9 and PR10 links because only a few webmaster have sites with such a high PR and are selling links on those sites.

Traffic

Traffic will increase the price of a link only for “real webmasters” that are not only looking for PageRank. If you are trying to sell a link on a PR3 website that recieves maybe 1000 uniques a day to one of those webmasters that are only interested in PageRank, than you won’t make any money. On the other side, if you have a high PageRank and you find those webmasters only interested in PageRank, than you will be able to earn a lot even if your site does not recieve any traffic (examples are Wordcloud sites and most of the Bid Directories).

Link Position

Link postion is another point only real webmasters will consider. The best position of your website to sell links at is the upper left corner (see www.linkrain.com as example). Other good positions are the upper right corner and the upper center of the page. Make sure that people don’t have to scroll down the page to see the links or you won’t be able to get some good money out of them.

Niche

Some websites are much more difficult to promote than others. If you have a website that belongs to a very small niche and you find some buyers for your links, you will be able to charge much more than a website belonging to a big niche with the same traffic and PageRank.

Now, by taking in consideration all these points, a PR4 link could be worth even 30-40$ a month if placed in a good and visible position  on a website with good traffic and belonging to a small niche.

If you can’t decide for how much you want to sell links on your website, there are even some link price calculators:

WebConfs Link price calculator that suggests me to sell links on www.linkrain.com for 29$/month

Text-Link-Ads link price calculator would sell my links for 24$/month

Seochat link price calculator would sell them each for 30$/month

Even if I start to recieve very good traffic and have a PageRank of 5, I sell links cheaper than these tools suggest me to sell them…and it’s not easy to sell them at my price ;)