A subset of SEM is SEO. A subset of SEM is PPC. A subset of SEM is Link Development. A subset of SEM is SMO (facebook ..etc..). A subset of SEM is traditional adverts. A subset of SEM is Paid inclusion. Search Engine Marketing SEM covers all of these areas. To truely develop website potential all these areas (SEM) must be covered
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization while SEM means Search Engine Marketing. SEM is a broad term and SEO is just a part of it.
SEO is organic as well as free, SEM is paid, the ads shown at the right side are inorganic & we have to pay to Google for every single click.
SEO is for optimizing your site more user friendly. And SEM means Search Engine Marketing, IE, marketing your products, services through your website. Both SEO and SEM are inter depended.
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Just thought I'd throw this in even though every other man and his dog are saying it; SEM is usually PPC (Paid per click) and usually requires a large investment for the more competitive keywords. SEO is organic search, and is NOT PPC - SEO is preferred as it usually saves on money
SEM: Search engine marketing, is a type of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages through different forms which include paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion. SEO: Search engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website in search engines via the natural search results, which includes different techniques like changes to the HTML source code of a site, editing in site content, working on Title, and keywords etc.
Difference between SEM and SEO is that SEO is used to promote your website include off,on optimisation, natural listings & directories whereas SEM is defined as Search Engine Marketing which include SEO ,paid listings & directories.
Seo focuses on getting organic traffic from search engines SEM is more like pay per click & social media type of stuff...
something you might interest: #2 says : *but SEO is more widely used #5 says : SEO = Part of Search engine marketing* it made me confused.
SEO means optimizing your website according to search engine guidelines and SEM means marketing your website on search engines using Google Adwords, Yahoo ads etc.