What are the difference between SEO and SEM ?

[loveguruindia]

Hlo Friends,
What are the difference between SEO and SEM ?

[RH-Calvin]

SEO or search engine optimization is the process of optimizing your website in search engines. The process helps to build your online identity and reputation to benefit your online business.

SEM stands for search engine marketing. It is the process of promoting your website in various search engines to build its popularity and reputation. Search engine optimization and social media optimization are two major processes used for search engine marketing.

[Mouni]

SEO is a part of SEM. Both are meant for increasing the visibility of your site.
SEO is meant for website optimization while SEM is beyond SEO, it covers entire Internet Marketing including Social Media Marketing and Mobile Marketing.

[sadianisar]

SEO is Search Engine Optimization. It is a technique in which we optimize a website according to guidelines of search engines while SEM is Search Engine Marketing which is a paid technique and we pay to search engine for marketing our website on the top of SERP.

[davidweb09]

SEO help in ranking While SEM help only in traffic.

[RosaJBrassell]

SEO – Search Engine Optimization- is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's unpaid results. There are two types of SEO techniques. On page optimization and Off page Optimization. On page is you make changes to website and content to make it more relevant to the search term and Off page means you take efforts to establish brand with google by making your website popular among the relevant market.

SEM - Search Engine Marketing- is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) primarily through paid advertising. You can use various Search engine for marketing. Popular are Google (Adwords), Bing, Yahoo.

[chiragpatel108]

SEO is the unpaid marketing technique and it take own time to give best result

SEM is paid marketing technique which give us instant result through Website Ads

[Liyanscom3]

SEO is Search Engine Optimization

SEM is Search Engine Marketing.