The purpose of a web site is to make money not gain pagerank. Work on your SERP's not page rank. That's if you want to make money...
PR has nothing to do with getting traffic for your website. PR use to have great importance in the past but not not anymore. For traffic be active on forums like DP and share your resources, be helpful to other and try to optimize your website. All the Best
first optimize your website according to best On Page Tactics and after that do quality Off page SEO & SMO...these two factors can get you good keyword ranking and good promotion of your website...
True but he is asking about how to get a higher pagerank. IDK why, cuz it don't matter these days but that's what he is asking. Though, you are correct in your statement.
Google has always stated we shouldn't worry about PR, but keep building unique content and adding backlinks, and the PR increase will come
It is not worth the bother now pagerank. It is hardly important, unless to sell the domain. It is always better as it looks bigger add your page to other (BL) with a higher PR, wait for the year should rise.