You might wanna try avoiding blogs and use social bookmarking sites...i.e post where PEOPLE are gathering
try
http://onlywire.com it's free.
There's a lot of BH applications for mass blog posting. Finding one that works is another issue. I'll rake through my hard drive and have a look for you but SB Sites get a LOT of Human Visitors......
Then you can try blogs.....
crackwhore looks interesting....some evidence it works would make me look more seriously
p.s Don't be lulled into false sense of security re no 1 position in Google. I have several and sometimes they produce little traffic, one even has 59 million competing pages! It depends on your site description i.e the blurb google shows.....the keyword obviously...the market...and the offer.
Thats why I concentrate on getting humans to my sites.