where do u get this information from? I started my site and after 2 days on link building I got ranked 1 was it a coincidence?
I pray for this the other question in my mind is weather the rank is effective whenever you get it or your status increase over time and PR is just an evaluation ? something like tagging your site
There are two types of page rank. One that we normally see and use is called "Pseudo Page Rank". This is the one that is publicly available form google in tool bars or through other sites that use the google approved code to track page rank. This page rank is updated in approximately 3 months. It could be earlier or late as to the liking of google guys. The actual page rank is how ever only available with google and changes dynamically. No other body on earth knows the real PR value. This can be any thing like 3.124 or 2.789 not necessarily a whole number like 3 out or 10. When there is a google PR update this decimal values may be rounded up and exported for public use. Again the rules of rounding is not available with anyone except Google.
Everyone guess about PR update but no one can say perfectly. I think you should meeting with Matt Cutts.
Yes, it's been a while, but this isn't out of the ordinary. They update 3-4 times per year on average...that means sometimes there will be 6 months between updates and sometimes there will be 2 months between updates. If I recall correctly we had one in November and then again about 6 weeks later last year. Patience...especially considering that you can continually see how well you are doing by checking SERPS.
These days its hard to predict..Google has deliberately made it an irregular affair to prevent people from indulging in selling backlinks using pagerank as an authority