PageRank ™ For Sale

Everyone and his brother wants a high PageRank ™ on their site. Newbies seem to think that PageRankV and the rank of their page are somehow related.

As more experienced promoters are fond of pointing out, if PageRank ™ was everything, Yahoo and Google would be number for every since.

However this proliferation of PageRank ™ "envy" has lead to a flood of websites advertising links from high ranking sites - PageRank ™ for Sale.

A simple search for "improve PageRank" in Google shows Adwords for companies promising "No Fees to List, Trade or Sell Boost Your Page Rank and Profits!" and "We have a huge selection of high ranking relevant sites."

But will the buyers get what they are paying for?

That's up to Google.

Gmail-mania

I can't believe how many people are selling Gmail invites, and Gmail accounts with trade terms...

For instance - here's a Gmail eBay auction for the name Collectible@gmail.com.

Actually that seems like a pretty good one. Some of the other names are pretty lame "BeastieBoysRock@" and "BrittanySpears@" (misspelled, nonetheless!).