I want to open an online store. What would be the best way to attract traffic to the site.

[john]

Try these Advanced SEO Strategies to market your website and to drive more traffic also to get brand to survive in this competitive SEO world

1). Community Creation in Social Networking (Web 2.0 - Participatory Web like Orkut, Myspace, Facebook, Linked In, Ecademy, etc.,)
2). Submit your website in Social Shopping Sites like Shop Wiki, Product Wiki, Google Product Search, Yahoo Shopping, MSN Shopping, us.ohmybuzz.com, etc.,
3). Blog Posting & Commenting
4). Guest Blogging
5). Link Exchange with relevant sites (Thematic Link Exchange)
6). Link Baiting
7). Cross-Linking (Internal Linking)
8). Forum Postings
9). Ecommerce Listings (Industry specific, Ecommerce Associations & Product Listings in Amazon, Ebay, Ibibo, etc.,)
10). Video Promotions (Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion, etc.,)
11). Write Ecommerce Product Reviews in Kabaoodle, Style Feeder, Rate It All, Wists, Five Limes, etc.,
12). Social Bookmarking (Tagsonomy & Folksonomy)
13). Photo sharing (Flicker, Picassa, etc.,)
14). Participate in Answers (Yahoo Answers, Wiki Answers, Cha-Cha, Answer Bag, etc.,)
15). Document Sharing (Google Docs, Slide Share, etc.,)
16) Submit in Ecommerce based website Directories
17). Widget Development
18). Try to get a content link from the sites / blogs related to your site theme. That is getting a link from middle of their site content with your anchor text (like Wikipedia). We know that it is hard to get but it is more natural and has more weight age in the search engine point of view.
19). Go for CPC (Adsense) & PPC (Adwords) Ad campaigns with your targetted keywords.

All the best..!!!