Being part of a blog network yeilds several benefits. Aside from the obvious technical benefits (asuming the network has a good IT team), the benefit is having a natural network of blogging to support each other...At least theoretically. Check out what Alex Ion, author of BizToolBelt had to say about the importance of networking within the network.
I was inspired by the way gadget blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo or Arstechnica (of course these are BIG blogs) get their stories on Digg. First time I thought it's just the algorithm doing it, but later I understood that getting on Digg could be somehow tricky.
Engadget is part of Weblogs and AOL so you can imagine how many people they have around the blog so if someone submits an article to Digg, then they start helping each other. There is nothing wrong to getting a kickstart to make the diggers aware of your article in the upcoming stories.
Knowing all these I did a test on StumbleUpon. Wrote an interesting article and then asked for a few friends to review it if they think it's good and give it a thumbs up. The results? It worked to get the visitors, the stumblers liked it, and it got even more votes and of course more traffic. A more recent example is when Kimberlee submitted an article I wrote, to Newsvine. It didn't bring a lot of traffic, but it got a very good audience after I voted it, too, and probably a few other guys I know.
These above, sound like the advices I always read on ProBlogger.net, ZenHabits.net or JohnChow.com. If you write great content and no one knows it, you will never grow, but if someone can help you a little bit, why say no to it?
Market your writing and try to do it with the "team".
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