Quote Originally Posted by Chilihost View Post
have you ever tried to do any hardlink or traffic swaps? PR is totally relevant for that, which in turn leads to relevancy in traffic and inbound links.
This is what google is fighting with the new PR. Google is assuming that some may do hardlink trades for cash. They don't like that at all.

Sites in mainstream that use to advertise listings for cash on their main sites are now doing in forums only. Kinda a cool underground movement going on.