Google Page Rank is important and I let mine slip. Totally my own fault. Need more back links. Slap across my face, I know better. Ugh! Dumb move, Joan!

The more quality links a web page has, the higher the Page Rank will be, therefore you can increase Page Rank by gaining more quality links. This is why getting those articles out to directories with high rankings is important. Also blogs and forums help. Also helps to add content to your site. Links from related websites helps too.

Now here's a contradiction for you...Big surprise to me: I just learned that Google doesn't look at your back links page ranks to determine what yours is going to be. It simply looks at how many back links you have.I never knew that before.

Sometimes. I just don't get the contradictions. When I started out online, I simply put a lot of content on my site. Didn't bother with back links or anything, ended up with a PR of 4. Started link exchanges, etc., and PR went down. ???? Go figure. I think I need to put more articles on my site. Also, get much more in the directories.

Google updates PR every three months.  Hard to predict what they will do, but you can get a decent Google PR prediction at Iwebtool. The first five predictions are free.

Well, predictions aren't going to change anything. We all know what we have to do: provide excellent content, write, write, write, and back link with quality inbound links.

Ashamed of myself. No more Ms nice guy.  To work!!!