Getting a higher Google Page Rank for a website

The eternal question!! How does one get a High Google PageRank for a website??

The answers are quite a few. The common answers are as follows (ordered in descending priority)

• Backlinks
• MORE backlinks
• Some More Backlinks
• Quality Content (keyword targeted)
• Meta Tags
• Maybe more backlinks
• Continuous page updation
• Resolving tech issues (js, flash, canonical, etc etc )
• A few more Backlinks

As a reminder from an earlier post relating to the "click here" Adobe dilemma, where the Adobe website ranks #1 for the keyphrase "click here" is totally attributed to backlinks (incidentally the Page has a PR of 10!!) that it has received from millions of webpages from all around the world with varying PR's - FOR FREE!!

After a little look into the backlink promise, I found the following for the keyphrase "bajaj bikes for sale" on Google India:

Website	Rank on Google	Page Rank	Indexed pages	Backlinks*	Alexa rank
www.clickindia.com	# 1	2	719,000	1	n/a
www.bikes4sale.in	# 2	3	7,320	1	59,744
www.autonagar.com	# 4	4	3,350	68	n/a

* Source - SEOQuake for Firefox

I found the data above as really inconclusive. Seems indexed pages seems to overcast all other parameters including backlinks and even the Google PR itself. If this was the case then only large B2B, shopping or classified websites would rank for all related terms right, wrong.... Why isn't a site like Indiamart #2 or #3 with 700k indexed pages??

Google seems to be going loco. I recently read a writeup somewhere saying Google has stopped showing Backlinks altogether, to prevent 'link wars' amongst websites competing for ranking.

However, more often than not, this is the kind of jargonish nonsense you'll find on the web -

Ranking Well In Google: How critical Are Back links to Your Site?

When building your site for Search Engine Optimization on Google there are a lot of aspects you have to view in order to obtain a good value on search engine robots. Of course the articles and meta tags need to be inline with positive density percentage and reciprocal links. Google then takes the web site and fulfills a mathematic equation and places a rank on your webpage counting on one of the most crucial things, reciprocal or back links.
A back link and reciprocal link are identical. They both are saying the same fact to the Google search engine; that your webpages should be ranked higher, due to the fact that consumers find quality in what the web site has to offer, they provide a link to your website, accordingly setting up a great network connection. Google loves to see interconnectivity and will reward your web pages well for planning it like this.
There is one more important thing to consider. As soon as the Google engine goes through your site and discovers a dead link it shows that you aren’t taking good care of your webpages and subsequently decreases your webrank by reducing its point value.

If you would love to find out what your site’s current numberic value is download The Google Toolbar and type your website address www.yourwebsitename.com in the box and perform a web search. Upon reading the full site address, Google will go exactly to your website first thus pulling up your homepage. There on the toolbar will be a page ranking for your site between 1 and 10. 1 is a significantly less visited and a site with pagerank 10 is a web site that generates traffic 24/7.

This is just some dude posting an article with backlinks to his own website on some article directory. I lmao, this is backlinking from a page talking about the benefits of backlinking... Google really should stop considering backlinks and focus more on frequency of page updation, indexed pages, clean code,and relevant page content. Meta tags & on-page content should play the biggest role in ranking with backlinks taking a more tertiary priority......

Till then.... off to the directories, social bookmarks & article blasting