Difference between SEM and SEO ?

[farmgate]

Can we Say that SEO is Now SEM ?

[DavisJoseph]

Yes SEO is part of SEM because SEM stands for “search engine marketing.” It is the process of gaining traffic from or visibility on search engines.

Gaining traffic through free SEO efforts
Gaining traffic through paid search advertising

[stephan07]

SEO is a search engine optimization through which you can increase your website page rank while SMO is social media optimization and this is use for increasing traffic purpose.

[swimcapz2009]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of creating or adapting web pages so that they are easily indexible by Search engine spiders.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is a strategy that includes using SEO to be able to get a given page to have a high rank within search engine results and then to use those results to market a product or service.

[guptaabhijit318]

Search Engine Marketing is often used to describe acts associated with researching, submitting and positioning a Web site within search engines to achieve maximum experience of your Web site.

Search Engine Optimization is the simple activity of ensuring a website can be originate in search engines for words and phrases relevant to what the site is offering.
Yes, now we can say SEO is a part of SEM.

[AbeenSur]

Yeah, you can say that SEO is a part of SEO and SEM is combination of free as well as paid services like PPC.

[mikey45]

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is the process of improving a website's rankings in the search engines. SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing, which can include SEO, but is more closely associated with Pay-Per-Click/Keyword advertising and other promotional activities.

[elenabrown]

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of increasing a web site’s rank and the amount of quality traffic sent to it via the organic search results of a search engine for specific keywords by optimizing various elements of each web page within a site.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is the process of researching and positioning a web site within search engines to achieve maximum exposure. A SEM campaign includes SEO, paid inclusion, pay-per-click, and other related services that will increase qualified traffic to your web site.

[libang007]

no,you don't

[lesa mitchell]

Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is a part of Internet Marketing Services. By Search Engine Marketing we can promote products and services of a company by marketing the company’s website, on the Internet and various Search Engines like Google and Yahoo; while Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the method of analyzing and constructing individual web pages, as well as entire sites, so that they can be discovered, analyzed, and then indexed by various search engines.