What is the difference between SEO and SEM?

[revasharma2]

What is the difference between SEO and SEM?

[Dant1974]

SEO is search engine optimization process used to make any website popular. And so we use various tools and techniques by which you can make backlinks for your website, backlinks helps you to make more traffic to your website.
But SEM is the broad term of SEO. The seam is a marketing strategy for which you use search engines, but in SEO you work to get ranked on search engines.

[RH-Calvin]

SEM is a broader term than SEO, and is used to encompass different options available to use a search engine’s technology, including paid ads. SEM is often used to describe acts associated with researching, submitting and positioning a website within search engines.

[rohit]

Search engine optimization (SEO) can be described as strategies and tactics used to ensure that a site is accessible to a search engine and improves the chances that the site will be found by the search engine.
SEM is a broader term than SEO, and is used to encompass different options available to use a search engine’s technology, including paid ads.

[tanveerhabib]

SEO is search engine optimization process used to make any website popular. And so we use various tools and techniques by which you can make backlinks for your website, backlinks helps you to make more traffic to your website.
But SEM is the broad term of SEO. The seam is a marketing strategy for which you use search engines, but in SEO you work to get ranked on search engines.

Really nice explanation I knew about seo but didn't knew much about SEM. Thanks...

[rvtrainingchd]

SEM acronym for search engine marketing is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages through optimization and advertising. Basically, it is a combination of both SEO and advertising :)

[john00]

SEM stands for the search engine marketing that both include the PPC and SEO while SEO is just the crawling of the website in a search engines.

[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

SEO:

SEO is simply to make the site better for search engine in order to increase its visibility on the ..In the process of SEO you tend to rank your keywords on search results so that you’ll get traffic via search engine which is called organic traffic.

[appzuniverse]

SEM - Means you will pay money to search services like Google Adwords , Yahoo to get ranked among those "Sponsored Results"

SEO - Means Organic results i.e you will use search ranking tactics to get high search position without paying money.

[jackthomas087]

Hello ..


Both SEO & SEM are important practices.
SEO is for getting backlinks
SEM is for publicize the website.

If you want to gain more traffic to your website, then you should do both SEO & SEM. It's my personal experience...

Thank you Advance ..................

[anirban09P]

SEM is a broader term than SEO. Where SEO aims to provide better organic search results, SEM uses the search engines to advertise your website or business to Internet customers and send a more targeted traffic to your Web site.For example, when people use a search engine to query "fashion handbags", the organic search engine results is where SEO technologies can assist your Web site in being more visible. The paid advertising, or sponsored links are the ones prominently displayed above or beside the organic search results is a product of SEM.

[ThomasBunch]

SEO is search engine optimization, it is good to create backlinks for your website which helps to get more visitors and higher page rank. SEM is search engine marketing it includes SEO, PPC etc..... SEM is online marketing and helpful promote your website.

[Nilima98]

SEO stands for Search engine optimization used to search the ranks in search engines by keywords and phrases.SMO stands for Social Media Optimization where they are used in the business such as brands.

[dinuanzz]

SEO is Search Engine Optimization based on off-page and on-page optimization
SEM is Search Engine Marketing based on Ads creation, PPC, running Ads and online Marketing

SEO Companies in Trivandrum (http://www.centree.in/social-media-marketing/)

[Goldysoni]

SEO and SEM both are increasing visibility in search engines.

[Educaindia2]

SEO is Search Engine Otimization & SEM is Search Engine Marketing.