IMO, regular content updates can also help you.. e.g. when someone have read your contents/articles that was helped him/her a lot,, s/he can probably share it with his/her friends or in some forum sites like DP and will point a link to your site without your notice... link building w/o your notice... another example of this was seotools... many SEO spclist point a links to your site to,,sharing that your site has an SEOtools... Regards!
I see a bunch of people mentioned this and I agree. Link building is essential, weather is paid links, link exchange or blogs they all help. The better the quality of the link the more they help.
Quality Links is a sure fire way. I have few good directories - if interested do add your website - SEO Web Directory | India Web Directory Cheers Rajesh
From Quality websites and Putting Good keyword rich content is one of the base to get Higher PR and still if you are not satisfied from 3-4 or 5 then you should go for paid submissions.
1. quality backlinks 2. more backlinks 3. more backlinks 4. more backlinks 5. more backlinks .... simply any backlinks, even bad ones will help (very slightly) as long as you do not link back to them.
How much do one-way directory links help? I get about 5 new ones a week from PR4+ directories but none of them show up as backlinks when I search Google.
I dont think regular content increases PR, but regular content will help you gain backlinks which will ultimately help your PR...
there is only one criteria for the page rank . it's getting backlinks. you can start submitting your site to the directories. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=315153 is a great list for the free directories
There is only one method of rising your PR - getting backlinks Search this forum and you will find a lot of good ideas for getting as much backlinks as possible.