Page Rank at Last!

After months of posting on blogs, and essentially ignoring my own, writing articles, social bookmarking, posting in forums and a variety of other things, I have finally cleared a small milestone. Google Page Rank. Yes, I am now somebody!
My landing page has a PR of 3 and my first forum page is PR2. What has this done for my forum? Not much! I still need members. What good is a contest forum when you do not have enough members to compete!
Hopefully this will bring more people by as my positioning in the searches moves closer to the first page.
To all of you who are trying to get better google results I have only a little advise. Keep posting links. It works.