Try to build more and more quality back links links to your site.

Also Seo optimized content, link building on hyper site gives more benefits.

Are keyword meta tags still useful?

page rank provides authority on your site in Google.if you want a good PR of your site you need to build to maximum back links to your site.

First if you want to get fast your website/ blog top rank so you can follow these simple rule
1. Create unique content
2. Off page work do only 3+ website
3. active your social link

SEO has two major parts on page seo and off page seo. On page SEO On Page SEO is a easiest method and refers to all the things that you can do header on your website

Page rank is almost dead now, don't waste your time to increase page rank just concentrate on the contents...

Page rank not yet updated since a long time you can develop good theme relevant niche to get better page rank .