Blogs have become a very powerful tool on the web. You must have noticed while surfing that the search engine displays a number of Blog entries in the results. This is due to the fact that the Blogs link to each other constantly as well as to other sites, and create a strong network of links. This network works quite well with the search engines.

Many bloggers take the links from any other Blog and republish them in a different manner. This means that being talked about on Blogs helps you to get a large number of links from reputed sites, and thereby high search engine rankings.

How to do it?
To make sure your website is talked about on Blogs, you have to offer a content of the blogger's interest. Most of the bloggers prefer subjects such as entertainment, gadgets like i Pods and the like, web and computers. After choosing the subject, write some text that would be either new, funny or controversial.

For instance, Apple's launch of the i Pod which is same as the size of a fingernail is a new topic that bloggers would like to write up on. You can even predict obvious steps for a popular company and get it linked from a large number of sites. Controversy is quite interesting to create. You have to attack something that most bloggers agree on.

A very good example of such a controversial Blog was when one person wrote an article criticizing the most popular Blogging software. This generated a lot of traffic as well as thousands of links from Blogs.

So, Do I Have to Be a Wind-up Merchant?
Always give controversial views that you hold, and write things of a amusing nature that you actually find amusing yourself. Otherwise, your insincerity will be quite evident. It is important to be in sync with the likes and dislikes of the bloggers, and the things that they care about.

So I've Written It.
After writing something, the next step is to post it on the Blogs. There are a number of ways to do this, such as its direct submission on the Blogs, with a message that “you found something and thought others might like it”. It is also worth it to link it to a few similar entries on other Blogs. This creates an automatic link from their Blogs to yours.

You can also try to link with some weblog-style communities where bloggers are generally known to participate. It will be quite a surprise to see how many people click on it, or even post it on their Blogs.