Looking For An Appraisal on PR7 Blog Posts

Mornin' all.

I've recently acquired a PR7 general interest blog (well, it was a political blog for several years, but will now become general interest). I plan to sell blog posts on the site, but I'm having trouble pinning down a fair price for them. Maybe you can suggest something...

This is the situation as it stands:

The homepage is PR7.
Most of the inner pages are either PR5 or 4.

The blog posts would remain on the homepage for a month before moving permanently into the archives so, in effect, the sale is for a 1 month link on a PR7 and a lifetime link on a PR4 or 5.

The homepage would be kept to a maximum of around 30 outgoing links, but probably much fewer.

Traffic at the moment is abysmal, due to the lack of action since the blog was abandoned 3 years ago. The average today is 40 uniques per day - clearly, a link from the site would be based more on the PR benefit than attracting visitors directly.

I have my own idea of a reasonable price to charge, but I'd like a little input from my potential buyer. Any suggestions?

 

50$? I think its around it as some directories with 5~7 pank is that ammount

 

Hmm. That's firmly in the ballpark of what I was thinking of. Ideally I'd sell one post every couple of days so I'd keep making a decent income without packing the PR7 full of outgoing links, so the price needs to be high enough to reflect the value of the link while low enough to ensure that I won't struggle for customers.

Anybody else have an opinion? Link buyers, maybe?

 

I may take one at $50.

 

I think $50 is okay.

 

Sounds like we have a consensus. I'll begin selling links on the link sales forum (obviously) in a week or two.

 

Gl mate Will you loose pagerank because of the links?

 

Nah, I doubt it. Until I acquired the site it had a sitewide blogroll containing over 100 links, and the content of each page contained at least 5 links each. It kept its PR for a few years with 100+ outgoing links. Since then I've wiped the blogroll clean, so even with 20-30 new links it should be fine.

Plus, by including links in the content of the site (by, for instance, writing a blog post reviewing an advertiser's website, with a link included) there's no way that Google could deem the links commercial and penalise me for it (as a few misguided people believe is the case).