Networking sites / paid links

[littlesthobo]

A national networking company charges its members, say, a few of hundred pounds to become part of their network, which involves offline networking events and online in forums and a directory.

All the links of the directory and forum sigs etc are all do-follow.

While it's not just a directory, how beneficial a link is this likely to be?  The site itself has a DA of 60 and a PR rank of 4. 1k likes on their cnnected FB page and 21 likes on the G+.

At the networking meetings they tell new recruits that being a member gives them a very valuable backlink and everytime they participate in the forums they get another do follow backlink.  Ive checked and they are dofollow.

Is this likely to be a great value link?

[TakeshiYoung]

Sounds like a decent backlink to me. There are directories like this in many niches (like findlaw.com) and they can provide a high authority, subject relevant link.

PR4 isn't terribly high, but depending on the cost of membership (and the other benefits of membership) it could be worth it.