PageRank is still powerful!

Some time ago I’ve bought link on page with PageRank=6 :). It cost me 160zł (polish zloty) around ~$53. Is this much? I don’t know what stakes are in US or somewhere else, but here in Poland it’s pretty much. Many times, Google tells that PR is not important factor to be well ranked in SERPs. I wanted to test it.

I was supprised at the end of my test.

About my site. It’s connected with royal estate, similar to craiglist. You can put here announcement that you got some flat, room or house for rent. For this time I was concentrating for catalogues and some presell pages. My anhor was “stancje warszawa” (I’ve just changed design!). Before the test my was was around 10 and 14 position.

About PR=6. Link was on that site for ~30 days, only on main page (1 site) with PR=6 – telegazeta.tv.pl. When I started test, on that page was 6 external links (71 all links – 8%). After that, number increased to 13 (16%). The final number of external links was 36 linków (35% of all)! In the meantime page lost PageRank from 6 to 4!

After the 30 days I’ve jumped to the 5th position! Pretty nice result when link was only one page :P