What is PR?

What is PR and how do I know what mine is or how do i get it?

I am new to SEO , thanks

Oh, if anyone has any basic tips for increasing search engine ranking, that would be awesome. (or point me to a forum that explains)


Thanks for looking

Here is a page of stuff about getting started:
http://www.ozzu.com/other-search-engines/where-get-started-t23832.html

and here is a bit from google explaining the very basics of pagerank:
http://www.google.com/technology/index.html

Here is another post about pagerank:
http://www.ozzu.com/other-search-engines/topic-t23043.html

Lol both of those posts are on the very first page of this forum!

and more pagerank info can probably be found here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=pagerank ... 8&oe=utf-8

thanks mate .. i did'nt really look around before posting this, as i thought no-one would be as dumb as me on this topic

Thanks again, your a champion.