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What is Search Engine Marketing? What's the difference between Search Engine Marketing (SEM) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

[Cucumber Marketing]

SEM is a paid Search Engine Marketing like Google AdWords for example. SEO - is an organic approach

Also SEM could be both activities used together.

Hope this makes sense

Cheers

[ryxin]

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search results, or the higher it "ranks," the more searchers will visit that site. The leading search engines, Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, use crawlers to find pages for their algorithmic search results.

[Mary42]

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs) through the use of paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion. The industry peak body Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) founded by Barbara Coll in 2003, includes search engine optimization (SEO) within its reporting, and SEO is also included in the industry definitions of SEM by Forrester Research, eMarketer, Search Engine Watch, and industry expert Danny Sullivan. The New York Times defines SEM as 'the practice of buying paid search listings'

[viaddress]

SEO means search engine optimization.
It is the process that increase the rank of our page on search engine result page (SERP).

[Maxewhite]

Search engine optimization is a subset of SEM. Why is that so? Because SEM strategy increases website visibility through the aspects of search engine optimization, internet marketing (image,video,article,etc). All that takes place when it comes to promoting a website is all about search engine marketing and as a webmaster stresses on easier target, there is the SEO. Actually building contents, sharing more links and connecting to a lot of social networks is really hard work that is why you can also have to outsource your projects to manage time easier.

This is what outsourcing have taught me since I received this resource from a blogger who told me about this website How To Outsource Your Internet Business - Why You Should Outsource Your Work | Mass Outsource
It has free videos, all accessed to this young Australian guy's account and found it all helpful in starting my business. Outsourcing is really the key and I hope this adds to SEM success too!

[Jenie0109]

SEO is a part of SEM. SEO concentrates on meta tags, titles, keyword density, effective and clean html coding whereas SEM looks into the search engine submission, paid inclusion, directories submission, traditional adds, PPC (Pay Per Click), PPS (Pay Per Sale) and press release.