Here below a list of interesting tools to get the PR (Page rank) of a page:
SeoChat - PageRank-Search
Google AudiencesTV
You may increase your PR by getting links to your page from other pages with high page ranks. So in order to increase your PR you need to search high PR pages and to put your link on them.
How to do this? Well you may ask the webmaster of the targeted website to add a link for you. But most of the time they will not.
The best way is to use the blogs' comments !
For example:
My website talks about chinese radio.
Let's use SeoChat - PageRank-Search. I will focus on blogspot platform:
- so i will search for: Blogspot chinese radio html
don't forget to class you search results by pagerank and to display 100 per page
Blogspot because it's the platform i'm digging in;
chinese radio because those are the keywords I want to compete on;
html because I want to put my comment (the link to my page) on a real page that has a real pr. Most of the time blogs' entry pages have a high PR but these pages change often, archive posts (with html extension) are more targeted and do not change.
- then I visit page results with a high PR and I put a comment as follows:
Name: my keywords
Email: I give a real email address: some bloggers don't like SEO and check before approving a comment
url: the link to my page
Comment:
make a short comment related to the post and if you can try to put the keywords in your comment.