Recently RentACoder (RAC) website changed their politics about direct linking.

If, in the past, you created a new bid request and a direct link (www.ecommy.com) was added to exemplify what you needed now the link has changed and became:

http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/DotNet/WarningPage.aspx?ExternalUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecommy.com

I wonder if the global crisis we are in has dramatized the battle for high page rank and of course for traffic. If so – how someone will be able to get a high PR nowadays (especially because in order to have a high PR you need quality links from high ranking websites)?

UPDATE: the reason that rentAcoder updated how customers are redirected to external websites is based on security issues. There were websites that cloned RentAcoder login page asking login credentials. Hackers later used the stolen data to buy projects on RAC and paying with coder’s money.