Well to start with, create accounts in all the social networking sites given in the addthis widget and submit your articles. Make sure you start doing bookmarking 24 hours after you have posted a new article. This is obviously get you good amount of backlinks as well as traffic in a long run. Then remember to do cross bookmarking in all these networking sites. Find some blogs in your niche and start doing some genuine blog commenting.
The best way to get a Page Rank is to get back links on high Page Ranked sites. If you want to reach PR 1 fast you need to make back links on PR 8 or PR 9 sites. But Page Rank Doesn't really matters i used to have a PR 3 site and and PR 0. The PR 0 made me traffic and profit a lot more then the PR. Best regards.
Exactly you have to increase back links that to from high pr so that you can get pr and your blog will also get rankings....
Once you have high PR I will send you a kind email softly begging you for a back link, well I won't but millions of other will
Everyone is right here that you need to create backlinks to increase your Page Rank, but it is worth noting that google hasn't updated Page Rank in over a year and so despite how ever many links you have / create, your oagerank won't increase until google updates pagerank again.
Shame you went with the 'kiddies' blogging tool (AKA blogspot.com). If you'd used wordpress you could have installed all sorts of free plugins that would get you back1inks. the free wordpress plugin from bloggerhigh.com for example.
I think way to increase the PR is Social Bookmarking in High PR sites and consistently publish the worthy content.
PR is depended on backlinks if you make quality backlinks on high PR sites, then you sure get high PR.