I actually ended up building two blogs. I installed two instances of wordpress, and built two separate blogs, then I built some galleries, and posted blog posts to point to them, etc.
Not sure what to do now, I feel like I can be exploiting this so much more, obviously.
I think the thing to do would be, as you mentioned, to build some free sites for submission.
There is just so much information available and possible paths to take. It's crazy!
There is definitely no clear cut way to proceed.
I am having tons of fun though. I don't think I've ever had so much fun working before.
