Just do your stuffs Ludwig.. patience is a virtue and that's what seo does hehehe.. you cannot get a PR in a snap.. goodluck with your blog man...
i think first thing first is article, Panda like article, so you must doin a good thing here..then of course backlink..I think google prefer Backlink with same niche and higher PR, other quality backlink comes from .edu and .gov web sites..
Page Rank mean Rank of the page on SE or Google PR? The first thing is quite complicated, it has many criterias. The second is simple, get more and more back links with high PR.
Vow ! If only I knew this..I did not have to sit long hours writing articles on the same subject day after day!! Hope you did not mean..Black hat techniques as you may run the risk of getting your site penalized by Google.
there are many way but two good way is social bookmarking and article submission. If you can then do this two as good as possible and hope it will help you.
Try yahoo answers,,, provide quality answers pertaining to your niche and leave your website link in the source section..
Getting PR is not such an easy task at least now these days. Try to get it genuinely and try to remember the old sandbox and do some hardwork with the content including niche thus hopefully soon you'll get long lasting PR.
You can increase PR by getting backlinks from authority sites in your niche, if your site is new, you will have to have some compelling content for them to link to you
With the exception of social bookmarks, and article directories to a certain degree, these are not "quality" backlinks.
First optimize the site's content and meta in on page and Make to buid more backlinks through off page activity.
I can't do it fast as long as google updates only 1-2 times a year. Just keep on writing good content
Do you want to increase your page rank or increase your search engine ranking? Not sure why you'd be so desperate to increase PR.