Will Sitepoint be the next SearchKing?

Sitepoint's editor is advocating the sale of your google pagerank for big bucks: Sell Your Google PR for Big Bucks

However, that doesn't mean it's a bad idea, there are many sites who could use a few thousand dollars per month to hire that extra employee or pay the bandwidth bills. I know of at least one site that is making $12,000 USD a month by selling links to whoever will buy them, whether the purchaser's content is related to the Website, or not.

Depending on your Google PageRank, you can easily charge $250-$750/month per link. Restrict the length of the link to 30 characters or three words, sell 12 spots, and you'll have a very nice revenue stream.

Of course, they're not willing to do it because maybe they heard of SearchKing, but they're nevertheless advocating it for their newsletter readers.

See also: Economist article on Google and paid search claims that "75% of referrals to websites now originate from Google's algorithms."