Thread: How SEM differs from SEO ?

Dear members...I know about SEO and little knowledge on SEM. How SEM differs from SEO ? Please give me a clear picture about it.

Thanks.

SEM stands for search engine marketing in this we target market through buying links on high PR sites and SEO stands for search engine optimization in this we work on high PR sites for link building...

seo is using to build links and sem is using to promote urs site......

SEO- Search engine optimization also known as organic seo SEM- Search engine marketing also known as inorganic SEO in SEM we spend some amount of money to rank our website.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is basically a part of Search engine marketing (SEM).

Search engine marketing is not complete without search engine optimization. Search engine optimization make your website friendly or better for search engine and users. If you are going to spend money on advertising and paid maketing (search engine marketing) then also your first step must be SEO for promoting your website.

SEM or Search Engine Marketing is part of SEO industry and SEM usually used for fast results by using paid inclusions, paid placements, contextual advertising and PPC or Pay Per Click for only paid advertisements.

seo target only organic visitors..sem target social networking visitors and ppc

Originally Posted by williamharris04

SEM stands for search engine marketing in this we target market through buying links on high PR sites and SEO stands for search engine optimization in this we work on high PR sites for link building...

William harris,
totally agree with you, short and very sweet determination.
thanks

Sem is target for increase web traffic while seo techniques are implement for search engine ranking, traffic, PR, and other ranking of website.

Search engine marketing (or, more correctly, search engine advertising) is effectively paid advertising in search engines, where you 'Pay Per Click' (PPC). It is text advertising delivered in response to 'trigger' words typed into the search box. The surfer types in a search phrase, the PPC advertisements which have bid on that phrase are displayed, and if the surfer clicks on a text advertisement they are taken to the advertiser's website. At that point, the advertiser's account is charged for the 'click through' by the search engine's advertising partner.


Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is defined as the process of building pages in a manner which enables the pages to rank highly in 'algorithmically' determined search results, which are generally displayed on the left hand side of the page. The 'algorithmic' results are independently determined by the search engine's own mathematical algorithm, and are based on relevance to the search phrase.

Hope it will give you a clear view about both.

SEM is to marketing for search listing and two technique in full fill the job one paid 'PPC' and other is Free 'SEO '. So seo is free services in marketing for search engine ranking .

SEM is a paid process used to enhance ranking on the search engines.

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.

Seo stand for search engine optimization which is promoting webpage and website on major search engine and getting relevant traffic on your website.
There are two type
1.Off page optimization
2.On off optimization
Off page have many part.
1.Directory submission
2.Social bookmarking
3.Forum posting
4.Classified
5.Blog commenting
6.Blog posting
7.Press release
8.Article submission
9.Yahoo answering

SEO stand for (Search Engine Optimization). SEO also called by organic ranking in search engine like Google, Yahoo, msn etc. SEO take time to get rank in search engine in term of SEM.
SEM(Search Engine Marketing) is payed marketing. In term of SEM we can fix the budget for daily our add campaign..

SEM is known for the paid form of advertising. If you use PPC,adword, Microsoft ad manger, bing or any form which help you get conversion via paid form it all comes under SEM.

SEO is also form of online website promotion but it does not contain any paid format.