what is the difference between SEO and SEM ?

[infomesh]

HI all,

What is the difference between SEO and SEM ? Is SEO a part of SEM ? please share the information regarding this..

Thanks in Advance....

[iresh]

Is SEO a part of SEM ?

Yes, SEO is the big guy and SEM is just a part of it

[Asherr]

Hi, SEO is used to optimize your website which includes on site and off site optimization for optimizing every web page of your website and SEM is different marketing techniques to promote your website with your keyword over search engine to deploy services online.

[Siyal]

SEM is search engine marketing and involves purchasing advertising space on search result pages. Sponsored listings are SEM.Search Engine optimization Process to achieve top ranking or top position on search engine Result Page. it also helps in getting quality traffic.

[metajack]

Search engine marketing is very controllable. You decide what you want to spend, which words or phrases you want to purchase, and exactly which page you want your ad to link to. SEO relates to the examination of a website to find any technical barriers that might be preventing a search engine from accessing a website's content, and then identifying the most relevant site content and improving significant elements (primarily the page's browser title) in order to help the search engine index the content most effectively.

[Ancient]

SEO is a part of SEM as for me, but there are always talks about that

[chandan001]

Hi,

SEO is slow and free process to make site visible in search engine.

SEM is paid and fast process to generate the traffic for the site.

[Abhinandan Garg]

Originally Posted by iresh

Yes, SEO is the big guy and SEM is just a part of it

sorry but you are wrong

SEO is the part of SEM.

SEM contain :

SEO
SMO
PPC
affiliate advertisment
others

[SamDermot]

SEO means search engine optimization and SEM means search engine marketing.

SEO and SEM both are creative term, you have to much creative to earn from it.

[shafiqwork]

SEO is an organic or free listing.
SEM is paid listing.

[seolss11]

I think SEO is a Free Service and SEM is a Paid service..

[Sukhdeepak]

SEM is a part of SEO. SEM is a paid service whereas SEO is not.

[johncena]

@Abhinandan Garg : I am totally agree with you.

[Buck]

Hey....
1 SEO stands for Search engine Optimization...
SEO includes organic search engine ranking not with the traffic. Includes on page optimization, off page optimization, competitor analysis....... etc
2 SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing....
SEM is not related to ranking its only related to tarffic either paid or free.
Includes analysis for best traffic generating website, cost to advertise on website, finding audience interested in your projects, Country you need to target, ROI analysis.

[forumseo]

Hello friend,
SEO and SEM are the part of internet marketing to sale a product or service. you are not pay for promoting by using SEO but you must pay anything to promote by using SEM.
with regards,
Siva

[Buck]

Hey....
1 SEO stands for Search engine Optimization...
SEO includes organic search engine ranking not with the traffic. Includes on page optimization, off page optimization, competitor analysis....... etc
2 SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing....
SEM is not related to ranking its only related to tarffic either paid or free.
Includes analysis for best traffic generating website, cost to advertise on website, finding audience interested in your projects, Country you need to target, ROI analysis.

[expertsguy]

SEM stands for "search engine marketing" and SEO stands for "search engine optimization."

SEM is the all-encompassing broad phrase that includes SEO as well as paid search activities such as Google AdWords purchases.

SEO, on the other hand, is simply a subset of SEM.

Some people mistakenly think that SEM = PPC while SEO = organic. SEO does equal organic, but as you can see by the definition above, SEM does not equal JUST paid search.

[Asherr]

SEo is search engine optimization through which one can have good ranking in Google by optimizing each tags of a website and Search engine marketing, SEM works to get customer traffic for your website.