You can increase the PR of your web-pages by increasing the number of quality backlinks pointing to your site. However, if I were you, I would have never bothered about this PR thingy... Google wants webmasters to concentrate on the bigger picture - traffic, conversions, SERP rankings and ROI...
Quality backlink is the key of PR increment. Because Google is considering the quality backlink as the vote of confidence.
I agree that backlinks are part of it. Also, keep focusing on basic SEO such as keywords, quality content, etc. Ultimately, quality traffic is more important than PR.
Both are necessary for increasing the PR. But if you would have good backlinks then you can have good serp and pr this will help you to get the business and traffic as well.
Quality back link create quality traffic to your website. Quality back also a major factor to get high page rank. Build more and more quality back links on regular basis. So that you can achieve for next update.
First the content quality should be good to have a direct large traffic due to the site content itself.. Secondly, perform promotional job through off-page tactics to have a good pr due the backlinks generated
You can increase your sites PR by both traffic and backlinks. DoFollow backlinks have no alternative of getting PR.
Build a variety of links from different sources, also make sure that you don't Blast the links as this might make your site look suspicious to the Search Engine. Naturally built links always work from high PR sites with relevant and related content.
Backlinks are the only factor that effects your pagerank, the content and quality of the site does not matter.
You can increase the PR of a site by getting backlinks from authority sites in your niche, ofcourse getting those authority sites to give you backlinks especially if you are a new site is a little harder than in theory
Hello Simple answer for this question is the most important factor to increase the PR is link building. If you are able to create the back links with good PR directory then sure your PR will increase in next update.
The Google Page Rank is determined by a number of factors and the most important of them is the quality of the backlinks coming to the site. If you have a considerate number of links of high PR then you can be sure that your PR will rise.Quality matters more than quantity.