Backlinks are the most important factors that decide your page rank, technorati authority and traffic. A link from another blog increases your page rank and technorati authority. And if it is a link in between the context of an article that is related to your article it can surely bring a lot of traffic too. So today I will show you some easy tricks that increase backlinks .

1. Creating any type of a valuable resource article where everyone would like to link. An example can be the dofollow blog list, or a list of photoshop tutorials, or a how to article, or a list of beautiful blog templates. Do you get it? You can think of many other articles according to your niche.
2. The Evil Way : Write an article that creates some kind of a controversy, for example, an article that attacks a famous person and creates a news on the web or in the blogosphere.
3. Creating any type of script, or software or application that others would like to talk about and use, for example, creating photoshop icons, wordpress plugins, an entrecard bookmark list, or a short cartoon movie showing Shoemoney and John Chow fighting.
4. Creating blog templates and distributing them for free. This can work, if you put your blog’s link in the footer of the templates. So the more your template is downloaded and used on other blogs, the more links you get. This is also useful in increasing your technorati authority. You can think of many other tricks just like this one, like creating a widget with a link of your blog. So the more bloggers use that widget in their blog the more backlinks you get.
5. Be the first to blog about a new website or ebook or any type of e-product, this will attract other bloggers to link to your review if they also write about it after you.
6. You can also run contests or any newsworthy event on your blog. But try to make it unique, not just another contest just like what we see on most of the blogs nowadays.
7. Publish an interview of a famous person on your blog. ( or something like Shoemoney and Problogger Face Off as in Dailyblogtips.com).

But wait, I forgot one point. Can you help tell what it was?