All off the stuff I said is valid as of today. If this was 2003 the advice would be to keyword stuff the hell out of it. Then get thousands of shitty backlinks using comments from blogs and forum profiles. Actually that's like 2 years ago. In 2003 Google could be influenced much more easily.
That may be, but the problem is that that's a losing battle. It's the same, relatively easy strategy that everyone else is doing, and thus a losing proposition.
I really don't see how what you suggest is significantly different from keyword stuffing. You're not stuffing the page, you're stuffing the links between the pages: the blog post and your site (and the fact that you're suggesting
Search engines, including Google, have an interest in leading users to useful pages. A shill blog post stuffed with keyboards and backlinks to your target content is not useful. It's not useful by definition that you didn't add or create any useful content, instead you are working on gaming the search engine. If legitimately useful pages, that users want to see, are not appearing at the top of search results, the (legitimate) search engines will figure out a way to detect those and put them there, since that's what users want. Meanwhile, you'll be doing the same thing everyone else is doing (link stuffing and low-content search engine food blog posts), so your site becomes indistinguishable from the millions of other cheap attempt search engine spamming sites.
Instead, build a useful product or site with useful information that's engaging to users. Of course this seems like the harder thing to do, but, duh, TANSTAAFL.
It's worth pointing out that the OP is talking about how to tell google your site exists, how to detect duplicate content, and a bunch of other stuff that if I list it here I'll be repeating it, not how to game it. Saying one should write a fluff blog post for the link juice is attempting to game it.
