Internet marketing... this term has so much meaning for those of us trying to make money online, or simply trying to promote a website address and draw visitors. Internet marketing goes by several other names as well. Many of these popular names include web-marketing, I-marketing, online-marketing, email-marketing, etc. The list truly goes on and on. What is Internet marketing? Basically Internet marketing is defined as "the marketing of products or services over the Internet." Since the Internet provides you with a worldwide audience, you can in-turn try and sell your goods to a worldwide audience, no matter where you are located.

There are several ways to get your name and brand out to possible consumers. Using creative and technical aspects of the Internet including design, advertisement, development and sales, you are able to get the word out to millions of people. There are many ways to engage customers and potential clients. Some of the more popular techniques include Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), e-mail marketing, and producing banner ads, just to name a few. Using these types of Internet marketing strategies - along with other popular Internet marketing techniques, will ensure that at the very least, you will get some traffic to your website. People may not be interested, but at least you know you were seen by millions of people.

While SEO is currently the #1 approach used for Internet marketing, there are several other excellent techniques being developed and implemented to help providers gain exposure and build traffic to their respective sites. A popular technique that is starting to gain some serious momentum is a Internet marketing technique called "SEO Link Wheels."

SEO Link Wheels is a new trend in Internet marketing. This type of SEO uses social media sites to help build traffic to your website. Since SEO is the most popular way to gain attention for your website, it is also the hardest. People are constantly looking for different SEO building techniques, and this one seems to work really well. SEO Link Wheels work like this...

- You write - or someone you hire, writes ten articles that are all related to the keyword you are targeting. - You take your articles and submit them to ten different online article directories. - In each of your articles you place two links. One link directly to your site (using the chosen keyword), and connect the other link directly to one of the other nine articles that you have submitted to the article directories. - Each article will be linked into your site, as well into all the other articles written (which are also linked to your site) thus forming a "wheel" of ten articles.

These - as well as other approaches, are gaining steam and popularity. If you are unfamiliar with some of these techniques then you can always start the good old-fashioned way... build your own content. Just make sure your content is unique and has links built in. A good way to stay fresh and unique is to hire a couple of different writers to build content for you. You will acquire writing with the same keywords, but you will have content and opinions from different writers.