As it is things aren't improving.My Alexa has slipped miserably and also did my Page rank after Google conducted an updated for PR and backlinks.Initially with my old keywords I did get a good alexa rank from 515,560 it shot up to 245,500.My backlinks/inbound links increased and that enabled my PR up from 3-4.
With the new set of keywords that I have now I am facing problems.
Is it wise to remove the old existing keywords and add a complete new set or is it better to add new keywords keeping the already existing keywords.

What makes me confused is the manner in which the updates took place.I have been a firm believer that more backlinks helps you to increase your PR. The last time in January when PR and backlinks were updated I had backlinks of 265 nd 170 respectively for a couple of websites that I work upon.Yesterday when Google did the update my backlinks reduced to 121 and 115 respectively.But the funniest aspect is the the PR of both sites are the same.One with a backlink of 265 and a PR of 4 reduced to 124 and 3,where as the one with a backlink of 170 and a PR of 2 has it's back links to 118 but the PR shoots up to 3.How's this possible.COULD SOME ONE PLEASE CARE TO EXPLAIN.

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I have been a firm believer that more backlinks helps you to increase your PR

It also depends on the quality of the backlinks. A backlink from a page with PR 6 "passes" more "rank" than one with a PR of 4. Also, how are you checking backlinks? Google is known for only showing a subset of the total number you actually have.

Do you know how Google determines which backlinks it does show?

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I have been a firm believer that more backlinks helps you to increase your PR

It also depends on the quality of the backlinks. A backlink from a page with PR 6 "passes" more "rank" than one with a PR of 4. Also, how are you checking backlinks? Google is known for only showing a subset of the total number you actually have.

I basically check my PR using the PR/SEO calculator.Manually I do it using the formulae.

PR(A)=(1-d)+(PR OF LINK PAGE 1*D/NO OF LINKS IN PAGE1)+ (PR OF LINK PAGE 2*D/NO OF LINKS IN PAGE2)+.....+(PR OF LINK PAGE P*D/NO OF LINKS IN PAGE P).

Where A,is your website
D is a damping factor =0.85
link page 1,2...,P are the pages that has a link pointing to your website and can be found out by conducting a search on Google with link:www.website.com.