Thread: SEM and SEO

I know that SEM and SEO are the same. They are both belong to the Google search engine.

The research market engine, is like Google. It can make your website very front of the top pages, that everyone can search.

Hello
Search engine optimization is a compartment or division of Search Engine Marketing. The difference between SEO and SEM has the diminutive to do with the overall mindset of the people's status quo, and that's most of the problem. It's not changing the way they think, it's changing the way we think. Mostly SEO embarks upon meta tags, titles, keyword density, good html coding when SEM was into search engine submission, paid inclusion, directories submission, and the likes. Search engine optimization dictate the majority rules of being the mainly prominent marketing technique as of right now, and companies are developing dissimilar approaches to guarantee that their sites are the ones conjecture the top results on the major search engines like Google and Yahoo etc.

SEM is a part of SEO and it's like word-of-mouth advertising of your product or service. SEO is a way to promote your products. It includes different ways like links building, forum posts, press releases and so on.

SEM is a broader term; it includes all the strategies for promoting your website on the search engines. SEO is a method of getting a website ranked in the organic or natural search results.
SEO is just one part of SEM.
Mostly SEO embarks upon meta tags, titles, keyword density, good html coding when SEM was into search engine submission, paid inclusion, directories submission, and the likes.
SEM is the common use of marketing methods designed to create a website more visible to Google and other search engines. These methods include paid search methods, such as pay-per-click advertising. SEO, however, is an organic search marketing method used to make a website rank higher

khelzy has it correct.

The difference between search engine optimization and search engine marketing is that SEM is for anyone with money who wants to buy a place on the search results of a search engine like google. This is where search engine gets a lot of profits.
SEO on the other had is the natural method of getting a website/ webpage on the top list of search results.

SEM is paid google space (those "advertiser" links you see at the top one or two spots in a google search). It can also be used as a blanket term.

SEO is organic search engine optimization. This has to do with web content and web presence.

Originally Posted by sliver66

I know that SEM and SEO are the same. They are both belong to the Google search engine.

AHHHH Very BAD info!

SEO is ranking in search results.....

SEM is paying for ranking or advertising! Hence Search Engine MARKETING

This is not only Google....but Yahoo, Ask and more.

SEO = Search engine optimization = optimizing your website in and off site to appear higher up in organic results. Organic results cost nothing apart from the technical person you may be paying to do it for you. Takes longer for results compared to SEM, usually on going lengthy process.

SEM = Search engine marketing = paying for ads, listing and sponsored lisitngs in the likes of Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, Directories, Yellow-pages, White-pages .etc. Results are instant and you can choose exactly what you phrases want to appear on specific search engines with. Can be very costly depending on how popular you choice of keywords are.