Having written your fantastic piece of content where would it get better SEO ranked  on a free blog (e.g. blogger blog, squidoo, hubpages) or submitted to the article directories?

@nickmessenger Have you considered repurposing the topic into both a blog post and an artcle? An article can be much longer than a blog post, in my opinion. If you expand the  idea furtherer and make some changes (maybe more images, more supporting commentary, etc) you can get double duty from the topic and have both.

@nickmessenger The nice thing about a site like HubPages, Squidoo, and EzineArticles is that they already have an established network with traffic. HubPages especially has a nice community, so if you comment on a few other hubs in your industry, you’ll attract other HubPage users to your posts.  Plus you don’t have to be a big user to have your hub/article selected as a good one by the moderators. I created one for a client on a new account that made the top 10 hubs for the day / week which meant it was emailed out to all HubPages members.  Lots of traffic for that one!  Free blogs on Blogger or WordPress, on the other hand, would require you to promote it out on social media to attract traffic.