I think Craigslist may give you some link love. I just got a job from craiglist and backpage brings a little traffic and they are free, so I use them.

Nowadays there really isn't any long term page rankings/placement, so I try to get all I can now and don't worry about what google will do tomorrow.

I recall this on webguerrilla and will include a link Spammin' & Jammin' With Craig's List