So the big football, non Jacko story at the moment is a certain Cristiano Ronaldo breaking the transfer record. Everybody’s favourite Portugese Prat moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid for a grand total of £80 million. Basically, a lot of people have been up in arms with that, as you can throw £20 million on top of that and buy Newcastle United, or a struggling entity such as Sentanta with that money.
However, one of my twitter followees lyndoman (Lyndon Antcliff) asked a question I wanted to answer: “How many paid links can you buy with £80 million?”
For the unaware, if you value your search engine positioning, paid links are bad. Basically they are people paying you to put links on your blog for search engine rankings, which Google doesn’t like. I’ll be honest, on this blog, I don’t value my search engine positioning, as most of my readers come through other blogs/forums, rather than search engines.
Anyway, I headed to a place where I could find link sellers, scammers & spammers, that wonderous place formally known as Digital Pointless. I put on a fairly nondescript post, saying I had a big budget, and wanted a few links, any niche, and any PR.
This was the big problem, as I was innundated with responses. Within 3 hours I had 50 responses. Searching through the tripe I found one very helpful post from a “david01″, who spelt it all out for me:-
So from “Dave!” (why the exlamation mark? Why?), we can see that PR6 links are $50/month ($600/year), and PR5 links are $30/month ($360/year).
Going on the value of Senor Ronaldo, he is £80 million, which, if my forex ticker is on the ball, is around $132,360,000.
So from that, we can see that for the price, we can buy 220,600 PR6 for a whole year, or 1 PR6 link for 220,600 years.
I found this aribitary and probably totally inaccurate Pagerank Table.
So, to achieve the elusive Pagerank of 10, I’d need 16,803 PR6 backlinks. Which will cost me $10,081,800/year.
So, for the price of Christiano Ronaldo, I could get:-
- Get this blog to Pagerank 10 for 2 years
- Get Retro Garden to PR10 for 2 years
- Get BWP to PR10 for 2 years
- A F-15 Eagle.
- Dean Windass
- Around the world 10 times
- 15 Bugatti Veyrons
- A rubbish island at The World
- And just under a million in change
Sorry Manchester United fans, but I know what I’d rather have!
photo credit: Paolo Camera
Tags: cristaino ronaldo, google, page rank, SEO | Comments: 9 Comments
Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
Feel free to throw a Veyron my way should you come across that amount.
That’s just ridiculous. No one should be worth that much money.
how do they work out that they can sell a person for £80 million±? thats ridiculous.
ps.
your latest blog posts are awesome!
Glad you’re liking them!
That’s quite cheap I think. Back before I semi-abandoned my blog and fucked up my internal links (aka that time when I was PR6 for a couple of years) I’d regularly get offers of $200+ a month for linking. Of course, I declined, but I would think with Google apparently getting stricter, high PR links would have risen in price rather than dropped.
And don’t get me started on DP. I assume you’ve seen http://www.jemjabella.co.uk/blog/off-on-holiday ? You can thank them for that one.
Yes I have. And I’m with you.
I HATE it. I am listed #4 on Courtney Tuttle’s “D-List” (of Dofollow blogs), and as such I’m right at the top of a lot of these DP lists. Hate it hate it hate it.
I’ve nofollowed both my comments & my top commenters list, and there’s a handle on it, for now :S
I don’t think table is true. Google is using very strange system and it isn’t easy like this.
Never thought one could create a blog post out of this summer transfer. Nice.
Funny post.
Coming to the original transfer, I think Real Madrid would earn most of it from merchandise sale. They did it with Beckham. But what amazes me is the weekly salary he will be getting at Real Madrid. Where do these guys get money from? Damn!!
P.S: I’m a Ronaldo fan
I agree with you. I did write before it that it was an “arbitary and totally inaccurate PR table”.
I know PR doesn’t work like that, and it’s impossible to guarentee a PR10, but this post wouldn’t have been written otherwise unless there was a guide.
Can I just have a Veyron? Much better.