SEO vs SEM

ssteven94 · 08-24-2009, 04:50 AM

What is the difference between SEM, SEO

joeldavis · 08-24-2009, 05:52 AM

SEO (search engine optimization) is the process of optimizing your site so that it ranks well within the search engines. Proper links, well organized site construction, fresh quality content, title tags, etc. If your site naturally shows up on the search engine results page (SERP), it is called organic search results.

SEM (search engine marketing), on the other hand, is *placing* your site on the SERP by paid advertisement--Adwords for Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Ad Center. It can be a PPC ad, banner ad, or text ad. Whichever type of ad, it only displays when someone types in the keyword you placed a bid on for your ad to appear.

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ssteven94 · 08-24-2009, 06:44 AM

hi,

thank you so much

ITchimes · 10-12-2009, 05:25 AM

SEO is the optimisation of your web pages to rank better in the "natural" search results.

SEM is the management of PAID advertising places (eg Google Adwords) adjoining search results.

elena1234 · 10-12-2009, 07:02 AM

SEO is provide website popularly from particular keywords, but SEM is provide business & money.

w3bmaster · 10-12-2009, 07:09 AM

SEM is much more expensive and the roi is much less then on SEO ...

tranduyninh · 10-12-2009, 07:40 AM

in my opinion , SEM is we need do more SEO : in SEM we need SEO and Marketing for product, get traffic and make your brand

robertgallagher · 10-12-2009, 08:34 AM

SEM is including SEO in it's self so SEM is bigger then SEO.

kevinkarl · 10-12-2009, 08:36 AM

SEM is Search Engine Marketing and SEO is Search Engine Optimization. SEO is part of the SEM.

gobeyond · 10-12-2009, 12:12 PM

SEO is a very solid long-term marketing strategy. If you get it done right, it is much more cost-effective than pay per click marketing.

SEM can be very effective if you know how to manage your account without wasting tons of money and clicks. Google's AdWords gives you a lot of controls that SEO doesn't have. For example, you can specify which regions you want to show your ads and exactly how much you are willing to spend. SEM is very quick to get results whereas SEO can take months to build up.

jonswilliam · 10-13-2009, 01:19 AM

SEO and SEM are different.. SEM is Search Engine Marketing. It includes seo and paid techniques like paid inclusion and paid placement. It focuses only on SE. While SEO is search engine optimization. optimizing your site for natural listings and directories.

1websitedesign · 10-24-2009, 03:59 AM

seo search engine optimization and sem is search engine marketing.

Sonal · 10-24-2009, 04:22 AM

I agreed with joeldavis...