I would be really surprised if you have not heard of www.squidoo.com :)

Its like ezine 2.0 with better marketing team, and they too tell a lot that "they like you". ;-)

You can create pages there and link back to your site. A useless page with NO decent original content won't take you anywhere so I think its worth spending 30 minutes on ir or better, Pay someone $50 to create 3 really nice lenses on your niche and than ask the person to promote it too.

Tip - Squidoo ranks the lenses and keeps links as nofollow for those which have little content or have little views. Once you get into under 100k,the links will become follow.

It's not hard at all to get it into the sub 250K range. First day published it'll be around a lensrank number of how many lenses have ever been created, but after the next lensranking it'll bounce up. Past the sub 100K mark if you get a few quick backlinks at the likes of squoogle.com and isleofsquid.com.

Just having someone from even one of those lens directory sites review the submission will give it a substantial boost (as it's counted as traffic from a different source). I've tested the theory (with some other people) and it works. (Thanks to Reprobate for the Tip)