I just finished building my first EPN niche store. Used phpbay Pro, so technically not a BANS store I guess. I was just wondering now that the store is created what are the best techniques to use to get indexed quickly by Google and other search engines. Any advice would be appreciated.
Get a link to it from the CNN home page. Seriously, make sure you've done an xml sitemap that gets crawled, get some one way inbound links, do some article marketing, directory submissions, social bookmarking and so on and you'll see the site indexed in Google. Getting indexed is only a microscopic piece of the puzzle, however. Once you're indexed, then the really hard seo work begins - adding completely unique, compelling content to the site on a regular basis, tons of link development, article writing (or outsourcing), more social bookmarking, doing Squidoo, Hubpages, blog posting & commenting and the like. So, indexing is just the tiniest tip of the iceberg.