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Steve Brattin1
Owner of SVB Wood Floors, Inc.
SEO generally refers to organic search, and SEM refers to paid search results.
Tanmay Mondal3
Digital Marketing Executive | SEO analyst | SMO ex
SEO is the organic visitor drive process from the search engine and SEM is the paid process. You have to pay individual click for the SEM but in SEO you have to for that.
Jessica Gross5
Assignment Help Expert
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.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a form in which all the activities like on-page or off-page for a website is done.
Tuhin Bhatt4
Co-founder of Intelivita
SEO- is Free Marketing, done with optimization of the website on-page and off-page,
SEM- is paid marketing, also known as PPC- the most popular SEM network is Google AdWord
Rakesh Chopra10
Digital Marketer
Using SEO, We can increase our ranking in search engines organically however in SEM we use paid methods to rank our sites like PPC.
Siya Carla6
Sr. Web & Graphic Designer , Blogger
SEO is for orgainc and SEM is for paid. One should choose seo if you are looking for long term gains and sem if you want results soon. SEM will work or give results only till there is money in your campaign.
Shiv Kumar Gupta6
SEO Webmaster
SEO is used to drive organic traffic from Google search engine while SEM is used to drive paid traffic from Google. This is the main difference.
Mohit Sharma10
Sr. Digital Marketing Executive
SEM includes mostly paid marketing tools where as SEO is includes free tools to get higher rank in any search engine
Somya Arora10
Digital Marketing Specialist
SEO is Search engine optimization its helps to increase organic traffic & ranking results on search engines such as google, yahoo & bing. SEM - called search engine marketing - its about paid marketing.
Marry Susan5
Printer Technical Support Provider
SEO stands for search engine optimization which is only use for organic search result in search engine. SEM stands for search engine marketing the paid way of online promotion called SEM
Adeel Akhter2
Digital Marketer | Blogger | SEO
SEO is search engine optimization where you put in efforts to bring your website on top organically.
SEM is Search Engine Marketing where you pay to show ADs on Google SERP when a searcher searches the kW you had targeted.
MD Jobayer MAhmud6
Bestearnidea.com
What is difference Bing and Google?
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Kyra Ana6
Digital marketing Agency
SEO stands for “search engine optimization
SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing
mohit Pathak6
Zobello
SEM is used in a wide perspective while SEO is a part of SEM
Jennifer Angel7
Online shopping
all i can say is practice and theory...and we needed both.
Paula Edwards3
Mobile & Laptop Service Provider
Sorry, I don't know.
Kate Steel6
Traveller
The difference between SEO and SEM is simply that Search Engine Optimization is part of Search engine marketing or Search marketing as it is widely known. Both processes aim in increasing visibility in search engines. ... It involves other methods that can get you more search engine visitors like PPC advertising.
Riyan Singh5
SEO
The main difference between these two terms is that search engine optimization is simply a component of search engine marketing. As mentioned above, SEM includes components of paid search, such as PPC and also SMM (social media marketing).
It is important to note that you should never use the terms SEO and SEM interchangeably, because although they work hand in hand, they are not the same term.
Jaiveer Singh6
Digital Marketing
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the process of optimizing our website's visibility in Search Engines. SEO is a free service that is performed by SEO experts.
SEM (Search Engine Marketing) is the process of getting website visibility in search engines by paid advertising.
Sunny Sharma6
AFFILIATE, SEO, SMO Expert
SEO is a Simle process please for this website @seokhazana.org