What is the difference between SEO and SEM?

[bhavnasingh482]

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What is the difference between SEO and SEM?

[HardwinKyler]

To solve it up, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a component of the larger category known as Search Engine Marketing (SEM) or Search Marketing for short. This doesn't explain the full story obviously.

[edwina]

SEO - search engine optimization.
seo is an organic search.

SEM - search engine marketing.
sem is an paid search.

[ketul]

SEM (Search Engine Marketing), it is used for the promotion of website through Search Engine Result Page (SERP) , while to optimize the search result of your webpage or website SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is used.

[Bangalorewebzone1]

SEM : Social media marketing
SEO : SEO means Search engine marketing.

[Rajeev Sharma]

Seo is a part of sem, sem stands for the search engeone marketing, any digital marketing strategy which is used for seo those are all become under search engeine marketing..

[shiry]

SEM is the marketing process with a goal of getting more visibility in search engines either by getting more free traffic or paid traffic and SEO is the process of optimizing your web site for the purpose of getting free traffic from search engines. An optimized web site is more easily understood by Search engine crawlers.

[Mehwish]

SEO refer to search engine optimization which is done by human being not by software and not much costly

SEM refer to Search engine marketing done by google adword or other companies to Run your Ads for your brand awareness and website traffic

[ezmallclub]

Seo stands for Search Engine Optimization while Sem stands for Search Engine Marketing. Seo provides organic traffic to a website with the help of search engines while Sem involves the use of Google adwords and other paid channels of advertising.

[ichnolite]

The difference between SEO and SEM is that SEO is a part of SEM and SEO is a method of acquiring Organic Rankings to a website when a keyword is searched on the internet. Where SEM involves in promoting a website to increase their visibility in Search Engines

[rahulraj]

SEM: Search Engine Marketing
SEO: Search Engine Optimization

[freehostforums123]

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines.In general, the higher the page rank, frequently more people visit the site thereby increasing the traffic to the site. This gives a website the web presence.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is a bigger term than SEO, and includes different options like paid ads,Pay-Per-Click.
SEO aims to provide better pagerank in search results, SEM uses the search engines to advertise the website to Internet customers.
For example, when people search for "to buy cellphone" in a search engine..SEO will help the respective cellphone selling website to be placed in the search results whereas SEM will be the paid advertising displayed above or beside the search results.

Now,many people may not be interested in the ads and believe in the main results and click a website with higher pagerank.SEM may be more useful for ecommerce websites whereas if someone is searching for "to speed up my internet"...the SEM will allow ads like some hardware/internet booster but it is SEO which will help the blog/website which details the steps to improve internet speed..now a user will be more interested in performing those easy steps to improve the internet speed and the choice of hardware will be secondary.

SEO and SEM are not competitive. SEO is considered as one of the method of SEM.The advantages of SEO over the other SEM make it clear that,SEO must be your first step in promoting your site.I am using the SEV service from Tucktail.com which covers the major SEO techniques and helps in obtaining the desired pagerank for my cosmetic review website.

[yugabharathi]

Search Engine Optimization is a technique that is used to bring a website to the first page of Google. The traffic that get through this method is free traffic.
whereas
Search Engine Marketing refers to those techniques that is used to bring traffic through paid advertising. Example PPC

[[12:31:18] Adeel Akb]

SEM: Search Engine Marketing is the process of promoting website by paid ads to get more traffic. Ads use to display on the relevant search result.

SEO: Search Engine Optimization is the free process of optimizing your site against search engine with the help of keywords.

[ragulaussie]

SEO is a Organic Result
SMO is a Paid Result