Do you want to know about white of black SEO?
Push it through social services such as Facebook and Twitter it will be the best way.
I side with Jennifer. Squidoo and Hubpages are decent services. You can also try to write for HARO.
I think that Ina summed up all things clearly:)
You need to have a reliably content. All in all this is the main point.
Sites with a good PR can be more useful. But the main thing is patience.
An article writing requires a decent skills. Because the article is always little research.
HARO is not bad for the article submission but it's hard to post an article there. Because moderators are very choosy.
GoDaddy and Hostgator are the best services.
You can also use Seoquake with Chrome.
The idea with signatures sounds optimistic. But the most of these links will be nofollow
Seomoz and majestic SEO will help you to explore more information about PR, back-links and etc.
For those of you who have considered the "buying fans" approach. It is said, that Facebook has been removing accounts and revoking page & app likes...
Have you tried to register on special sites: such as oDesk, Elance, Freelancer.com etc. There are a lot of such stuff on the internet.
You have to download seoquake checker for it.
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