The search engine is cnaging the rules because there are too many people who think of algorithm instead of adding a quality content to their web sites. Only Google staff knows more about the algorithm. I can tell you that PR is not as important as it used to be an year ago.
Lol @ knowing google's algo, it really won't get you anywhere. Anyway, I would give up with the whole pagerank thing if I was you...
better not give attention to this PR thing of Google. it has nothing to do with the site, its just an indicator of the quality. Well, my advise is just keep on doing SEO to the site, eventually when Google updates PR, you will gain some.
If you want the tecnical explainiation I recently posted about the original and more recent update to the PageRank patent.... There are links to both
I think your page rank will increase when you will have more popularity! I'm not sure, but I think this is the only way to have a higher page rank.
uuhhh.. the PageRank stuff ain't no secret... it is the other layers that have been added to it and the weighting given to each factor is what we don't precisely know.... See my post above for links to the original and more recent updates to the PageRank patents.... bring yer math hat SNIPPET for fun ( it is a LONG document) -