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

[rfc73]

[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..!!!

[mxyzplk]

socialize to the internet user. Support your website with a blog, and blog about your website. Tell to the other blogger about it, and make other blogger to review your site.
Reviews is the most thing people are looking for. If you have some money, I recommend you to join some blogging network, and pay some blogger to make review about your blog. And I'm sure review is much better then exchange links, because link on blog reviews is permanent.

PS. you can get review from my blog for $40 negotiable, just contact to my IM if you interested.

[kekere]

1. Create a Viral video and distribute it on major social networking sites like:

Youtube, Myspace, Facebook, Bebo, StumbleUpon, HighFive and many others.

2. Take your product to the crowd (online maketplaces like ebay and similar sites).

[d10]

i think you can join a forum which its members are your target markets.

[dante]

You can improve your traffic to your site by answering questions in yahoo and wiki,article writing,ezine marketing,SEO get more from http://www.clicknproducts.blogspot.com

[kindghost282]

Use free services like
http://www.sellit-right.com –great and recommended.
http://www.classifieds.yahoo.com
http://www.blogger.com –free way to talk about your Biz.

-Create flyers hand out to people and put in doors too
-Word of mouth. Start with people you know and encourage them to tell others
-Create a logo, attach to vehicles you own.

TIP: You never know where potential buyers will come from; so advertise where you can. Be it an empty or packed ad service. Your job is to sell the product or service- the services are there to help you do that. Take advantage of offers ad’ services are providing especially if they help to maximize the viewing of your ad(s) and increase sales. Keep coming back to the sites you advertise on and change your selling techniques from time to time to reach different buyers.

[Finian L]

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[Stu Gotz]

Start using a free Traffic Exchange System right away.

One of the newest and most advanced one out there is well explained in the article link. We use it ourselves and its great. Especially when you also add a web or blog ring to your site. The two of them together can amplify the number of visitors you get !!!

See: http://zardozz.com/zz/2008/08/blogrush-a...hange.html

Here is a link to one of the largest web/blog rings on RingSurf network :

http://www.ringsurf.com/ring/ZZOpenRing/

Using both of these will give you results.

Sit back and enjoy -- but keep your content interesting so those new visitors return !!