The Difference Between SEM and SEO?

[dreck]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[shamita]

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]

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]

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.

 

[james01]

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]

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.

 

[vietnamtravel]

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]

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.

 

[freehdwalls]

SEO is like website completion t get backlinks to your site for their website, In social media we help to make post on networking communities with content, pictures to get site visitors.

 

[sweetsdailyupdates]

The role of Search Engine Optimization is to increase branding and popularity of your business. By doing Search Engine Optimization, you can aware the users about your products and services.

The role of Search Engine Marketing is to promote your business by using different advertisement. PPC is one part of Search Engine Marketing where you can create your campaign and set your budget.

 

[markbatham]

When you involve with Paid marketing, Advertising like Paid Campaign (PPC), paid PR, display campaign then this marketing called SEM (Search Engine Marketing)
Moreover the method of marketing in which user comes to your site through search and for this you charged called SEM.

While SEO is the traditional ways of ON-Site and Off-Site optimization using various activities to drive traffic on your website without direct investment or cost of every visits.

but remember that SEO is the heart and without SEO, you can't run effective SEM.

 

[vaughn]

SEO is short form of Search Engine Optimization: SEO focuses on visibility of website in search engines. SEO has 2 optimization techniques (On page optimization and Off page optimization) by which webpage will be optimized and it get good rank in search engine.

SEM is short form of Search Engine Marketing: Website will marketed using SEM techniques like adds in reputed sites etc. SEM is all about placing adds and promoting product or service in search engine. Using SEM, product or sevice's adds can place in other sites which have high PR rank and more daily unique visitors. So the add get traffic by which service promoted.

 

[Latlon Technologie]

More are less both are done to increase the traffic to your website thus to improve the ranking. SEM is all about advertising (paid) so that you will get more traffic. example google adwords. SEO is about optimising the quality of the website and creating backlinks from which you can get traffic to your site.