Mu site's page rank got up to 4 last September. Then I was adding more contents. I think I did some thing unwise by adding free articles. The articles came from an outside source embedded onto mysite with php code. Then my site dropped to 3 in 2 week. I got scared and dumped all the articles. Now my site is holding steady at 3. But I checked google data centers, 2 of them showed 2/10. But because of the links I'm building, my site has 2500 pages indexed. Is it true that a sudden increase of contents and links will hurt your PR? Some of my pages were hidden before I redesigned it.
just my one cent opinion.. yeahh.. too much links out from your website hurt PR.. u need good backlinks and reciprocal to increase your PR back.. do links building more and steadily for few months..
Why not try adding unique content? SE seem to love that and then you won't have to worry. Don't worry so much about page rank and focus on your search engine positions.
-you can get higher page rank if your get more links from webpages that have page rank more than zero (use many forum, and try to get your profile with page rank higher, your signature to every thread your participate, try to get profile with high page rank from articles directories) -To rank well you should get your anchor text play the game, acnhor text with links from websites with high page rank and which a website that add your link in the webpage that have your keywords in the url will help you to rank well "votes" not links.
You need to get more quality backlinks to increase your PR. And you must create your content using your targeted keywords.
IMO, outgoing link to those article owner site, wont hurt. keep the topic related to you site. secondly, PR is about your site popularity. so increase link. quality content. etc
First of all do internal linking for your pages it will help u to distribute your pr for other pages.and check your back links frequently it might happen that your back links might be decreases. so get some quality links with high pr.
How to increase backlinks? what number of backlink is considered as enough? I got rejected by Text Link Ads stating that I don't have enough backlinks.
Are you getting your results from the toolbar? PR is not that accurate, that is why PR is not that important. If you want, build more quality backlinks and wait for the PR update
write and distributed articles and directory submissions are the two easiest ways. you can also exchange links with sites that are related to yours....but do just a little bit of link exchanges
In web directories, article directories, forum signature links (depends on the site), link exchanges, and many more.