Using position to represent strength?

[Defendant]

So while playing, I was wondering about this situation:

The first few seats are generally thought of as bad position (understandably so). But that makes a raise during any time in the hand a lot stronger. Take this hand for example: AQo in the SB, one standard raise, you call, one other person calls. Flop is uncoordinated rags. Now take the following two situations:

a) SB plays "by the book" and checks this flop. The second caller checks right behind the SB, having missed his hand too. Now, the original raiser bets out. You know NOTHING about where you are in this hand, and have to let it go, even though its highly likely hes just picking off the pot here after you showed weakness.

b) SB bets out half the pot. You missed, but with that flop, anything but a high pp will have a hard time calling you here. Why? You bet out with 2 people to act behind you. Of course, a strong ace has no business calling here, but even hands as strong as 10s will have a difficult decision seeing how much strength you represented betting out from your position.
And if someone comes over the top of you here, you know for sure youre beat, so its an easy laydown, not very expensive.

Some feedback would be appreciated, not sure if this play is good or not (of course, assuming NL and somewhat skilled opponents who realize the factor that position is).

Defendant