PR is also based on the popularity of your site in conjunction with the number of sites related to yours. As more competitors make sites, PR over time will dilute. Honestly, PR in the toolbar is a waste of time, focus on your users and content.
I know it should not work but it did. I could have shown you the site 2 weeks ago, but I have a link building trial underway. (See my other posts) So now all those sites have at least 1 link. It was a long tail keyword with no competition. But even so, with no links.
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I've achieved this top position on google you can check it out using keyword student billing software nepal on google you can get my website on top 1 position. It can be found with more some other keywords too.
You need to do proper keyword research using the google adwords tool. No one searches for "student billing software nepal" and a #1 ranking will bring no visitors. Ranking for zero traffic keywords is easy.
I completely agree about putting more work on keyword research, right now I see that I made mistakes by searching keywords, but basically it because I did not understand correctly how this all works .. so now I will have to make quite a big changes that it all would start to work as I wanted before ... It is disappointing, but still I am new one and hopefully with experience I would not have mistakes like this ...