The Difference Between SEM and SEO?

dreck · Feb 7, 2015

Hi,
Do you explain me what is the Difference between SEM and SEO?
I heard 2 these terms more time but honestly I couldn't distinguish the difference between them

Need your explanations?

ericplotz1 · Feb 7, 2015

dreck said:
Hi,
Do you explain me what is the Difference between SEM and SEO?
I heard 2 these terms more time but honestly I couldn't distinguish the difference between them
Need your explanations?

SEM is search engine marketing. SEM is any aspect that is used to carry out a PPC campaign utilizing user queries in the search engines. This is more specific to advertising but SEO can tie into a SEM plan because you can obviously use SEO for branding purposes.

SEO is Search Engine Optimization and it refers to the process used to rank pages on the interweb.

So in layman's

SEM - Advertising

SEO - Ranking pages on the web

richadrverma · Feb 7, 2015

SEO is like website submission t get backlinks for their website, But in social media we make post on social media sites with content, images to get traffic.

Hassan · Feb 7, 2015

SEO is the process of making your website easier to see for search engine spiders whereas SEM, is all about advertising on search engines.

seospmostafa · Mar 5, 2015

The difference between SEO and SEM is basically that Search Engine Optimization is part of Search engine marketing or Search marketing as it is widely known. Both processes aim in growing visibility in search engines. SEO is about optimizing the web possessions to get better rankings in the search consequences while SEM goes beyond SEO. It involves other methods as well which can get you more search engine visitors like PPC advertising.

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shamita · Mar 30, 2015

The difference between SEO and SEM is simply that Search Engine Optimization is part of Search engine marketing or Search marketing as it is widely known. Both processes aim in increasing visibility in search engines. SEO is about optimizing the web property to get better rankings in the search results while SEM goes beyond SEO. It involves other methods as well which can get you more search engine visitors like PPC advertising.

Chelsea R. Minks · Apr 6, 2015

SEO is mainly aimed to get more traffic on the website when user search for any particular keyword, wher as SEM deals with the right keyword selection and advertising.

danny83 · Apr 7, 2015

SEO is relating to page rank, properly built and optimised page can be on Google search appearing on first page for anyone that searches term that is your keyword.
SEM is promoted first three positions on Google first page search and sidebar ads.
SEO and SEM co-relates in a beautiful manner helping eachother with same objective to give your website higher rankings, however one can use them sepparately and give results it is only the matter of time frame and targeting right audience.

cutegirl · Apr 7, 2015

Both SEM and SEO are used to convey information over the internet through search engines. SEM includes PPC and advertisement, social networking while SEO is performed through good link building and on page optimization.

james01 · Apr 8, 2015

SEO stand for Search Engine Optimization and SEM stand for Search Engine Marketing. Simply SEO is a part of SEM. SEO is free of cost technique to effect the search engine results page and promote your brand. On the Other hand SEM is combination of free and paid techniques. The various part of SEM are
SEO
PPC
SMO
Internet marketing.

andersonbruce · Apr 8, 2015

I think you can get a better idea with this.
SEM : When you advertise your website in search engine results page. For eg. when you Google something you saw ads below the search bar and also right side of the results page. It is called Search Engine Marketing.

SEO : Search Engine Optimization is a technique to promote your website on different different website to make your website popular so that you can get higher position on search engine results page. For eg. when you google something, Google give you no of links related to your query. So to get a position inb those results we do SEO.

johndir619 · Apr 8, 2015

Getting free traffic from any search engine is SEO and it's a long term process and If your content is good then you get long term traffic from search engines and SEM is totally paid marketing you pay for search engines to show your websites on top of the organic results.

vietnamtravel · Apr 9, 2015

in my opinion, in Google, SEM = Google Adwords (pay money for Google), SEO = Search Engine Optimization (free money if you do for yourself, do Link building, Social Networks, Submit Links and more).

emily · Apr 13, 2015

SEO deals with organic search results by creating a fresh content and link building process. where SEM deals with paid media like PPC advertising and use of social media for brand awareness.

vinaya · Aug 14, 2017

SEO and SEM both ensures that you get traffic, leads and sales. However, techniques to drive traffic, leads and generate sales in SEM and SEO are different. You market your contents through paid advertising such as Adwords as a part of SEM, where as you add keywords on the contents and build backlinks for SEO purpose.

tom93 · Aug 23, 2017

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has traditionally been thought of as a component of the umbrella term, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), encompassing paid tactics.

Nancy G · Nov 4, 2017

dreck said:
Hi,
Do you explain me what is the Difference between SEM and SEO?
I heard 2 these terms more time but honestly I couldn't distinguish the difference between them
Need your explanations?

SEO means Search Engine Optimization.
SEM means Search Engine Marketing.

SEO pertains to all activities in ensuring your website gets on the top list of the results page of a search engine. Focus is more on creating high performing contents that provides value to its market, ensuring proper keywords, title tags are employed to have high search results and attracting more links to your website.

SEM utilizes all ways of promoting the website via SEO and/or paid advertising. Advertisements can come in the form of Pay-To-Click Advertising in selected search engine sites or ad placements in various popular social media sites. Objective is to get priority in the search engine results and achieve maximum exposure.

While SEO takes awhile to pick up, paid advertising gets instant result during the duration of ad placement. They are complementary and used to attract traffic and generate leads necessary to impact the business. SEM takes a broader definition to which SEO is just a part of it.

desmondmiles · Dec 20, 2017

Difference between seo and sem in below

SEO:
associated with well optimized metadata, title , tag , description etc
Content written in unique way
associated with good formatted page url
Sharing things in different social media

SEM:
associated with advertising things
relevant ad copy includes here
Set up with a budget

These are some differences between SEO and SEM.

Daniel204 · Aug 23, 2018

I would like share difference between SEO or SEM

SEO: SEO acronym is Search Engine Optimization In SEO there are in some crucial tips like as Meta tags, Image optimization, Content Optimization, XML/HTML Sitemaps, canonical tags.

SEO work results are the long-term result on Website

SEM: SEM acronym is search engine marketing. SEM its paid as compared to SEM. SEO is better than SEM

hynds · Aug 24, 2018

Search Marketing encompasses:

SEO: Earning traffic through unpaid or free listings
SEM: Buying traffic through paid search listings

Originally called "Search Engine Marketing" the shorter phrase “search marketing” is now often used as the umbrella term over SEO and SEM. The longer phrase "Search Engine Marketing" — or SEM — is now typically used to describe paid search activities.

SEO + PPC = SEM (Search Engine Marketing)

Good luck to you,

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