There are no special secrets. You can use any of these techniques: Social bookmark submission. Article submission. Forum posting. Blog posting. Blog commenting. Video posting. If you are interested in software that could help you in social bookmark or article submission, try Dino Browser. It has fresh list of height PR directories and can automate some steps like login, registration.
The PR of your web pages solely depends on the number of quality backlinks pointing towards it. The higher the value of backlinks, higher will be the PR. But, unless you are planning to sell backlinks or domain, you shouldn’t be losing sleep over it...
I quite agree, and I can't believe people are still asking how to improve PR either! To the OP, just build high PR links to the site to increase PR, then in 6-12 months time when you have a high PR but still no traffic, you should start asking questions about how to optimise your website for traffic and conversions.
start work from site analyzing and do meta tags creation check content duplicate and start off page work such as bookmarking, article, classifieds, press releases, blogs, forums, link exchange
I believe it's high time people stop responding to such questions. People can very well use the search function. This question must have been asked a million times before.
PR is all about dofollow backlink, you just need to build as many dofollow backlink as you can to improve the PR By the way, getting good PR doesnt mean you can get high SERP
Panda looks at what visitors are doing on your site so make it sticky and add Google+1 and Facebook Like buttons.
Start form SEO ON PAGE, after this... Unique content. Social sharring. Create satelites (Add them do directories, social sites). Blog posting. Blog commenting.