I didn't find squidoo to be extremely useful. I ranked ~800 in internet and 39,000 overall with no SEO or anything, but only got 1-2 hits a day...
Just echoing what others have said here, but you need to be better than your competitor. Buying backlinks is probably not going to be enough....
Yahoo! Site Explorer is the one I always use.
You can still get better SERP results with nofollow tags. They just don't count for as much in google/yahoo/bing's eyes.
You just need to add the xml feed in your settings. I.E. http:// yourblog. com/feed
In my opinion SENUKE is way too expensive. I would recommend finding one of the many VPS solutions that come with scrapebox, xrumer, senuke, the...
Finding forums within your niche, blogs with high pr have both been a great method for me.Article marketing can work pretty well to if your stuff...
I know I have definitely seen traffic from signature links. I don't know that I would pay any forum for them though.
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