Ideas for backlinks: - Make viral content and submit social bookmarks like Digg etc. - Directory Submissions Focus on getting quality links above all.
Sitemap is require to submit but it does not mean the ranking will be increasing, it is just for submitting the pages.
you have to build backlinks on high page rank sites and pages in order for your rank to boost too. and 164 backlinks won't do much for your ranking
You'll need both on-page SEO (mainly by optimizing keywords) and off-page SEO (mainly by getting backlinks, both in quality and in quantity).
There are so many methods to increase the Google PR 1. Unique Content 2. Good on page optimization 3. Quality back links :- Forum posting, directory submission, article submission, blog commenting, social bookmarking, theme based one way links. 4. User friendly Navigation 5. Create many pages of your site. 6. Domain age is an another factor.
My question is that why you want to increase your PR now this not necessary to have a high PR for SERP but it slightly matters, in my opinion you have to do a great onPage optimization for your site and after complete onPage there should not be any under construction material on your site and then first submit it to DMOZ and then so on i am sure your SERP will boost-up but PR will be in years. Regards, Sami Khan Seo Expert
I don't think Google really care about the age of the domain but Yahoo do instead of this you can concentrate on visitors on your site, the bounce rate of the site and the page opening time of your website.
To increase the page rank of any site is not a child work. you have to work hard to get back link, and needless to say that what's the impotence of backlinks for any site. Forum, Blog, Article, Web 2.0, Directory are some essential way to get backlinks.
You must do regular blog posts, article submissions and directory submissions for your site. And additionally remove the irrelevant links from your site. This will definetly going to improve ur site rank