Page Rank Zero Yet 7000 Links to Home Page?

I am bewildered and confused by Google’s alleged Page Ranking System. My family blog which is not known has a page rank of 1, yet my finance blog which is all over the search engines, has a page rank of Zero (0/10), I just do not get it. I continue to get more links and more comments, yet my page’s alleged rank does not increase ever.

Any hints from anyone?

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• Back to Page Rank 4 (Nearly Complete) Back in the days when Page Rank was published by Google, we all fought hard to keep a good ranking.
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• Please Reconsider My Page Rank Mr. Google? Found an excellent article talking about a way to have Google reconsider your site’s Page Rank (in Blog about Your Blog) .
• Page Rank Zero Yet 7000 Links to Home Page? I am bewildered and confused by Google’s alleged Page Ranking System. 
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• And, many, many more!