Starting SEO For My E-commerce Site?

[The_Kiwi_Man]

Hey guys,

So I'm starting SEO for my e-commerce furniture store and I'm a little confused. Right now the only links I have are from sponsored posts. How do I get links from other sources? What other sources are there besides sponsored posts? I submitted my site to Dmoz.org and I was also going to submit it to the Yahoo directory. I have contacted a few personal home decor blogs but have not heard back from those people.

Could someone steer me in the right direction.

Thanks a ton!

[danatanseo]

Hi! I'm sure you are very excited to see your business get off the ground. Don't bother submitting to the Yahoo Directory. Yahoo announced that they are shutting it down:  http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/26/yahoo-to-shut-down-qwiki-yahoo-education-and-the-yahoo-directory/

How do you get more links...now that is the million dollar question. I have two recommendations:

1. Watch any presentation by Wil Reynolds on #RCS (Real Company Shit). Here's a handy dandy link: http://moz.com/blog/2012-mozcon-videos-are-here (scroll down, it's the 2nd video on the page)
2. Read this: http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-strategies

If those don't give you at least a year's worth of ideas and things to do, listen and read them again. Cheers! I hope your site is a mad success!

Dana

[JVRudnick]

A short reminder that for the most part, using "link bait" is now considered old-school...

What you need to do is to create content that is SO SO compelling in your channel that folks will link to you!