You got it. If you want to promote your blog, make it something worth promoting. If it's something worth promoting, you may have to do it yourself on other people's sites but eventually others will do it for you.
quick answer would be no. They will not help you, unless you made that page a pr7-10. which i think is not worth. you might have just put the effort on your personal blog, not on free one
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