Link Building

There's a lot of information out there regarding the concept of 'link building' in your SEO quest. There is a short list of effective ways to get direct links to your site that includes posting on various messageboards, especially those that have a good PageRank with Google and those that have topics related to your shop. Second is posting an article you write on sites such as ezinearticles.com. Sites like this provide articles to websites that want fresh content and don't have the time or means to create it themselves. Write about something you have a lot of knowledge on, at the end of your article you'll have an opportunity to include a link to your site, that link will get crawled by the search engines and in turn get your site crawled. Sites like these get crawled very often due to their new and unique content. Then there's the concept of reciprocal links, trading a link on your site to your link on another's. I've yet to get this one going, I'm still working on my direct links for my Hometown State T-Shirts Shop.