What is the difference between SEO and SEM?

[stuartspindlow]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is the difference between SEO and SEM.

[RH-Calvin]

SEO is a part of search engine marketing. Marketing your website in search engine helps to build your ranking and generate more traffic to benefit your online business.

[Dam Ponting]

SEO may be the transform of upgrading your web webpage to the reason for getting free movement from look engines. SEM will be those advertising methodology for a objective for getting more perceivability over quest engines whichever Toward getting that's only the tip of the iceberg allowed movement (SEO) or paid movement (Paid look advertising).

[sinelogixtech]

SEO is the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search engine results.

SEM is the process of gaining website traffic by purchasing ads on search engines.

SEO results are unpaid results.SEM results are paid results.

[Anthony Clark]

SEO is essentially a component of the larger category, SEM. According to Google’s Knowledge Graph, search engine optimization is “the process of maximizing the number of visitors to a particular website by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine.”

According to Wikipedia, “Search engine marketing is a form of Internet marketing that involved the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPS) through optimization and advertising.” SEM includes SEO tactics, as well as several other search marketing tactics.

[marrysmith]

SEO and SEM both are used for doing marketing.

SEO short of Search Engine Submission. It helps you to increase your website and blog traffic on google. Using SEO you can increase your website visitors which help you to increase online business.

SEM short of Search Engine Marketing. It also used to increase traffic and visitor on google. but for SEM, you need to purchase AD on a search engine.

[jack martin]

a difference between SEO and SEM
1.SEO - search engine optimaztion
2.SEM. - Search Engine Marketing

[aliciagwen]

SEO means search engine optimization and it is a technique to improve website quality built backlinks and get organic traffic free of cost, where as SEM means Search Engine Marketing, which is a technique to do advertisements on search engine to get visitors from ads in the search engine results. Adwords is a pay per click advertising campaign by Google, which is an example of search engine marketing.