I finally got my PR 4 in the December 31 update.

Also, if you are not feeling creative on a certain day, you can skip article marketing for instance that takes more cerebral effort and do some social bookmarks, or blog comments that really is much less thought invoking. Also, I always have my TV on, and so link building is much more tolerable!

Also, you can outsource if it is financially feasable, I use this Social Bookmark Service that I advertise here, it’s very cheap and can save a lot of time.

Also, use this post 1000 Free PLR Articles you can use the PLR for article marketing to get ideas and not have to write from scratch, just make sure that you rewrite them significantly, this can really excel link building and not make it so draining.

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I know it sucks, but it’s just the reality and believe me if you are having a day that you really don’t feel like doing it, just say f–k it, just make sure to resume the next day.

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There are a lot of PR Checking tools out there. Don’t feel bad, I know a lot of ppl who had a PR3 and went down to PR2 with this update.

Hope that helps!

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Also it’s not always the number of links, but the quality, and in Google eyes, quality = relevance. I have not experienced what you are describing and I don’t know what links you have built, so it is difficult to analyze.

In reality, we all know that Google is unpredictable and they don’t exactly hand out the blueprints, however they do provide some guidance on the how-to’s of page rank and indexing within Webmaster Tools.

Also, in my experience to make the transition from a PR3 to 4, 5 and higher, Google may be looking for more one-way links from high PR authority sites as an indication that you have some authority in your niche.

And, in reality Page Rank is just one aspect of SEO and SERPS, I have a site that is a PR2 and sits above two PR5 sites in the SERPS and I have seen this time and time again and I believe that this is due to content and relevance of the content for the keywords, in the end, content is most important.

I notice that your site does not have much written content, and of course your type of site is focused on a specific service, but without content it is difficult to do a deep Internal Linking Strategy and to optimize your site for keywords.

My own site has been “frozen” at PR 3 for 5 months, since the last true PR update on February 25.

Lord knows I deserve a “4″ or even a “5″ because my links have gone from under 1,500 to over 4,000 during that time period.