Unless you work for Google, how its PageRank system really works will be a mystery. However, if you keep an eye on Google's blogs and other dedicated SEO sites you will become educated enough to draw your own conclusions. A large amount of links pointing to your page is vital to increasing your PageRank but importantly they should ideally come from quality sites that have a high PageRank themselves.

A high PageRank may assist in moving your website up the search engine results pages ...