5 Ideas on Writing Blog Posts That Pull Backlinks Like Crazy!

Natural link building is one of the best ways to increase your search engine position for your site. If you create quality content and a valuable service for your readers, it is only natural that other people will realize that and they will link to you from their sites.

Every time a legitimate site links to your site, it is like receiving a vote in a popularity contest. The search engines will take into consideration how many "votes" you have when they decide what kind of Google ranking you have.

Some types of blog posts will receive more attention than others. Here are five ideas to help you create blog posts that will pull backlinks like crazy.

1. Write about a strong opinion you have on a particular subject. If you argue your point strongly enough, you will get comments on both sides of the issue and will often get a great deal of conversation going. People will also link to your post so that they can recruit others to voice their opinion.

2. How to articles and posts are great ways to generate incoming links. How to posts are very popular - and people are very willing to pass your link along.

3. Break a big news story and you will get a huge amount of incoming links. People love to report a big news story and they love to pass along new information.

4. Blog about a group project. While you will not get backlinks from everyone, you will certainly get some backlinks from some of them.

5. Have a humorous post. Not all of your posts have to be serious. A humorous post that was written off the cuff can often generate a lot of attention.

If you use some of these ideas on your blog, chances are you will generate a large number of backlinks quickly. While acquiring a large amount of backlinks will not happen overnight, if you consistently write your blog posts with these five ideas in mind, you will be on your way to increasing your search engine optimization and the popularity of your blog.