What is SEM?

[dimplearora]

What is SEM? and how it is different from SEO and how it helps us to listed our website in the top 10 ranking?

[lisabrown01]

SEM stands for search engine marketing is the practice of using several different methods to reach potential visitors to the site via search engines. It is almost always the help of SEO, which is the practice of optimizing a website to automatically classify free and organic in the main search engines.

[darrylp]

Search Engine Optimization increases traffic to your website and this leads to a page rank increase in Google. Search Engine Marketing on the other hand is about advertising and marketing to achieve a target. Both the process are very important and increase traffic but what happen in SEO is that users can leave comments even without placing advertisements. SEO is more a technical process.

[jennifersmith12]

SEM is differ than SEO. SEO and SEM are equally helpful for website. It is more helpful to get more traffic.

[aaarwin67]

SEO is about building links and increasing your website visibility in search engines by carrying out various techniques. SEM is related with earning money via of marketing. Google ad sense, PPC, affiliate marketing all lies in the category of SEM.
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[saliha]

Hi...

SEM stands for “search engine marketing.”
It is the process of gaining traffic from or visibility on search engines.
Sometimes this is shortened to “search marketing.”

[jhoncamron799]

SEM (Search engine marketing) is a vital part of any internet marketing campaign. The aim of Search engine marketing is to make your business website more visible on search engine results pages.
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[royal]

Search Engine Marketing is a broad term that describes all of the activities used to promote web sites and thus generate leads and sales from search engines. SEM includes PPC Management, landing page optimization and SEO.

[thpalex]

SEM is search engine marketing which is a way of paid marketing and it is also very competitive like SEO.

[shanewaatson]

SEM stands for search engine marketing is the practice of using several different methods to reach potential visitors to the site via search engines. It is almost always the help of SEO, which is the practice of optimizing a website to automatically classify free and organic in the main search engines.

nice reply, iappreciate your views, thanks for sharing.

[webcreations]

Short for search engine marketing, SEM is often used to describe acts associated with researching, submitting and positioning a Web site within search engines to achieve maximum exposure of your Web site. SEM includes things such as search engine optimization, paid listings and other search-engine related services and functions that will increase exposure and traffic to your Web site.
SEO is different from SEM, SEO (search engine optimization) is a way that makes your or your client's website up on page rank on any search engine.

[sfphoto]

SEM (Search Engine Marketing) involves marketing your web site through search engines, such as Google and Yahoo. Basically, it is utilizing search engines to promote your web site and increase traffic to it, which in turn can increase your profits, if you are a business trying to promote its web site. By using SEM you can promote your business on the web.

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[forum1]

Search engine marketing (SEM) is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) through optimization and advertising.[1] SEM may use search engine optimization (SEO), that adjusts or rewrites website content to achieve a higher ranking in search engine results pages or use pay per click listings

[PoolrepairLV]

SEM is promoting and/or providing visibility of your web urls in SERPs to attract visitors. SEO is the tool you use to do this.

[michaelclarke]

SEM is search engine marketing Its same to PPC(pay per click) paid marketing.

[jaysh4922]

SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing. It is the techniques of getting traffic or visibility on search engine. It is a part of internet marketing.Pay per Click and Cost Per Click are part of Search engine marketing.

These are several tools for SEM

Google AdWords Keyword Tool
SEO Book Keyword Tool
Google Traffic Estimator
Microsoft Ad Intelligence

[rajeshedunomcon]

sem and ppc is almost same these are paid market