www.thepublicenemy.net ...... ....is the site I am referring too. I am wondering how exactly do I gain google backlinks. Are they just my website addy linked from other sites? Do these sites have to get cached/indexed with my link before I will see status change for my PR? Can anyone give me more insight on backlinks and PR. I am trying to increase both and want to understand all of this. Sorry I am 2 months new to rankings, pr, etc. Thanks in advance.
Backlinks are links from other sites to your site(s). Google know when you have backlinks because they crawl webpages following the links from one page to the next. You undoubtedly have them - try searching for your link in Yahoo. Google know about your backlinks but they only update their backlink results a few times a year (when they do the PageRank exports), so that would explain why you can't see any backlink search results or only see a few. PR is very complicated to explain to a new guy, so you can try reading my article on PageRank instead.
You are right, google update backlink slow. For your reference [ Your backlink stats ] http://www.backlinkfinder.com/-URL-www.thepublicenemy.net.htm