For some bloggers, getting traffic can be difficult particulalry when they first start up. For some, blog networks offer a flow of traffic that helps to kick-start their blogging life.
Blog networks have several advantages and disadvantages. The main idea of a blog network is that, once you sign up, for every blog you visit you will receive credits which are used to bring visitors to you. The general pattern is one return visitor for every two blogs that you visit. Visit 50 blogs and receive 25 visitors to your blog.
That can be time consuming. Visiting 50 blogs takes quite a while. Some blog networks have paid options where your visiting ratio become 1-1. You may even be able to buy credits so you don’t have to visit other blogs at all.
One of the benefits to new bloggers is visiting other blogs. You get a feel for blogging and what is involved, how other bloggers set up and perhaps monetize their sites. This can be a quick learning experience for the new blogger.
Most experienced bloggers find it hard to justify the time and cost of joining a blog network. However, for new bloggers, it pay provide a steady stream of traffic and help to introduce them to a great many blogs they would otherwise not have seen.
