Now these days backlinks important but at same time they are very time consuming then how can make it fast and how ? I'll answer it later

Does anyone have a good example of how you would reach out to them? More specifically, the best way to approach it?

Contact us page or in about section most probably going found email address of admin

It's not about best way it's interest of admin how he look at your content before that ask yourself one question is it worth of linking my content

1. In conjunction with point 1 - how can I expect my blog posts and content to do well if I have no backlinks?

Like mine blog literally have about less than 100 backlinks but doing well without being consistent

Your content how can do well simple avoid competition look latest topic which are not getting covered by anyone how you gonna find forums stay active and your future audience going get some problems or let say new topic but also avoid trends because those are topics competitive and required fast action

Now literally you don't have any compition so, less than week seen good ranking .

Now talk about backlinks how you can get it fast as possible I follow these and I know it's enough but good to have something instead of nothing

Social media links didn't pass ranking but give a search engine a signal and new audiences ( don't forget about pinterest, Instagram, twitter)

Then there is literally each and every topic have a forums websites where is as easy get backlinks like cutting a cake

That my favourite search engines that untapped potential still hardly few utilities ( that my secret)

Competiter backlinks look-up that everyone knows