I was thinking of a way to get traffic for my website and got this idea: Why not have a group of around 7 websites get together and submit one article to an "article ring" a week. On a predetermined day of the week, each website in the ring would be required to publish a news story on their home page titled "Affiliate Articles" or something like that with links to all the articles submitted in the ring for the week. The list would be kept fairly short because each website would only be allowed to submit one article a week (and hopefully their best one). Which website got which place on the list each week would have to be figured out. Do you think my idea is good? I'm not interested in getting PR with this, just traffic. I plan on contacting websites similar in size to me soon about doing this.
Its a good idea and one that could also work well with blogs. Take 10 blogs that are quite active and choose a story to link to each day. After a few weeks you will have 9 incoming links from the other blogs and some good stories linking out to relevant locations. This is pretty much what happens with a lot of the seo blogs but it would be cool to create an artificial network.