SEO and Google importance

I dont use just any pages. All of our sites are high quality informational websites, most with hundreds and even thousands of pages of pure content.

That sounds very good, but the pages are, I suppose, not always (and probably rarely) relevant to the sites. I do believe that a link coming from a page which talk about astronomy is not bringing a lot of credit to a site selling matchboxes.

One thing you will learn is that links are links. Granted all links are not created equal, but 1000 non relevant links from high pr sites will still do more for you than 500 relevant ones.

(at least currently)

agreed,
currently

question,

are there any websites where one could pay for, a text link with a high pr?

http://webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?t=272

that will tell you all you need to know

There are many sites out there that auction out Pagerank too. You can even find people selling it on Ebay. Do a search for "page rank".

pagerank is one thing, but that alone doesnt help your rankings. Lot's of inbound links from high PR sites can shoot you to the top of the serps. The links we sell generally give you between 500-1000 inbound links from pr4-8 pages

It was these same links that put webworkshop.net in #1 for his keyword of "seo forum" which is a competitive keyword.

He is def right. One example is a site I have. It is #2 out of almost 6,000,000 results. But guess what, it only has 39 backlinks and a PR of 5.

As much as this is said, we need a smiley for this:

CONTENT IS KING

lmao, that's funny, selling PR on eBay, hehehe

Reminds me of the guy that sold a ghost in jar. He actually got $50,000 for it. What people buy on there...hahaha

If you do pay attention to your IBL's check out http://anchorwizard.com

nice way to see your trends, etc

I have noticed a few SEO sites that were a Page Rank of 8 go down to 7.
One even gained 4000 IBLs but still dropped a PR point.
Someday Google will filter out textlinks with a proximity towards sponsored links, IMHO.

Why in the world would google do that?
If google makes it policy that you cant sell text ads then google itself in in violation. think. adsense, adwords.

You need to look at the bigger picture that google has to look at for every decision they make.

Not necessarily, because if Google loads a URL that contains Google AdSense script, they don't use the 4 random links that come up in the AdSense, and count them as links to those URLs.

So, how would they be in violation? I don't think it was suggested that Google would tell you to not sell ad space..

The better question would be, how is Google going to know what ads are paid for on your site, and which are good ol' fashioned regular off-site links? It can't.