How can I boost page rank rather quickly

[thelearningman]

I have had a site for 10+ years and recently decided to really put a lot of effort into boosting its page rank.  In the last 2 months, I have

1.  participated in forums

2.  gotten a number of reasonably high ranking websites in my industry to link to my page i.e. creating 100's of external, do-follow back-links

3.  created some external websites which are subject matter specific to my industry that are pointing back to my website.  At this point, these sites do not have much in the way of page authority

So far, my sites Alexa ranking has increased considerably from a rank of ~20M to ~1.7M worldwide.  How do I go about increasing my page rank / mozRank equally as quickly?

Having done a campaign of the competition, I noticed that most of their links are internal i.e. 750k+ which is nothing more than noise because they are not offering anymore information/products that we're offering.  Moreover, we have duplicated all of their external links and then some.  Finally, they have created a number of 'feeder' sites that all point back to them each with a page rank of 4.  This is were they are obtaining the bulk of their 20k+ external links.

What do you suggest that I do that I have not done already?

[irvingw]

1.  participated in forums careful!

2.  gotten a number of reasonably high ranking websites in my industry to link to my page i.e. creating 100's of external, do-follow back-links excellent keep doing this!

3.  created some external websites which are subject matter specific to my industry that are pointing back to my website.  At this point, these sites do not have much in the way of page authority don't do this! It is site spamming

What do you suggest that I do that I have not done already?

remove any links that are on your site that are pointing to other sites if you don't need them, they are leaking the PR of your site.

[thelearningman]

Thanks for the response, Keri.

I'm focusing on the page rank because the competition does not offer anything differently that what we offer.  They do not have original, unique content anymore than what's hosted on our site.  In fact, we offer certain services and tutorials that are beyond their expertise. I know that creating original content is imperative, but that's not how they obtained a page rank of 6.

The other reason I focus on page rank has to do with key word searches.  These guys come up all the time which translates into a financial windfall for them.  Somehow, they have gotten the search engines to focus on some key words that our customers and their customers use to get the services we respectively offer.  Without that visibility, we will struggle.

Any advice that you can shed some light on as to 'what to do now' would be appreciated.

[KeriMorgret]

To be honest, I would focus on my users and conversions. Not one word has been said about traffic, if people are doing what you want them to, if you have unique content on your site, if you're offering anything of value to your users, etc.

Why the focus on Page Rank as a metric?