Link Trading Q

[Monsieur]

Originally Posted by Linkster

(...) - which Google has made pretty much useless in an attempt to thwart link buyers (...)

But they still have some updates (pretty much on a quarterly basis) which you can use as a hint for the PR so you'll just need to look at the PRs right after a new update to find out the current PRs of pages.

And yes, the Toolbar PR ist useless, but in another way, because it's very vague, especially when a page gets to a higher PR. Reason for that is that the internal PR of a site is not the one Google shows in the toolbar.
Little example (numbers not correct):

Internal PR: 1-10 --> Toolbar PR: 1
Internal PR: 11-100 --> Toolbar PR: 2
Internal PR: 101-1000 --> Toolbar PR: 3
and so on...

Would've been easier to understand if I was a native speaker, I know...;-)