One of the best ways to control the Google Page Rank is by setting up your own Web site Network.
Start off with say 20 pages, an index page and 19 or 20 others about the niche you want your site to be about, or a section of your site.
It's important not to place loads of non relative links on these pages as this can hurt your onpage search engine optimization; like if you're talking about cars, you don't want to have a link to "baby food" on there. Keep strictly to the subject at hand.
Keep adding more pages, more sub domains, or more domains with different IP addresses on them, whether they are c-class or not, the IP address just has to be different.
Each of your pages should have one link pointing to home/index page. Then each of keywords on your articles should have a link attached to them pointing to another article that's about that keyword phrase in which contains that keyword, or one that is semantically related. If you use semantically related keywords you will start to see search engine results where you rank 1 for one keyword, while that page is linking up to another semantically related keyword (article page) will be listed in google, indented under your ranked 1 position, giving you rank 1 & 2 spots.
Each of your articles should really only contain like 4 links on them, or better yet, just the two: one to your home page and another to another semantically related article.
I tend to build sites for the search engine, not the visitor. It's my theory that if a user from a search engine reaches my page, if they read it and can't seem to find any more links to my other pages, they'll most likely (which is most of the time) click on my adsense links which look just like my main index's links - same look and feel. Bonus for me, I get paid, bonus for them, they are taken to another site with even more information that can help them.
When I use my technique for RSS Dreams I'm building a page rank for each of my pages, not just my index page. So the page rank from my inner pages, approximately 85% of this page rank is passed back on to my index page making it stronger. Then that value is then passed down to all my other pages, before long each of my pages will have the same page rank value.
Some feel that page rank doesn't determine a search engine ranking position. However I feel this is not true.
A page rank is determined by the amount of links pointing to it, so it serves two purposes really. 1) to let the SE know that it's an important page, which inadvertently says this page is important enough to rank it highly based on relevancy. 2) If a page has say 100 links pointing to it and overall this page has a PR 3 on it, if a PR 5, or 6, or PR7 page only has a fraction of these pointing it to, which do you feel will rank higher? The one that has a higher PR of course. However stating this, it does depend on the onpage search engine optimization factors and offpage as well. But if all are in check, where the two competing pages are bang on the same in the optimization, the higher PR page will rank higher for the same keyword.
