I have started to notice a lot of my archives from my blogs are very empty (November 09 has 1 post!). I am going to start writing a few 500-650 word articles and posting them, but with an altered date so they will look like archived posts. Of course thing won't bring visitors directly as the posts won't be on the front page of my blog, but is there a way I can let Google know the posts do exist? I want to capitalize on Search Engine traffic with them, so if I can get Google to visit the pages and crawl them for keywords it will speed up the process.
I figure that by submitting the post to social bookmarking and social news sites, this will provide enough relevant backlinks that Google will find it? I am just trying to find the quickest and easiest way possible to spread my articles.