Difference Between SEM and SEO

SEO is something that helps in improvising your rankings in search engines where as SEM is something where you needs to make good amount of investment for advertising your website in search results.
 
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.
 
SEO is the process of optimizing your web site for the purpose of getting free traffic from search engines &
SEM is the marketing process with a goal of getting more visibility in search engines either by getting more free traffic (SEO) or paid traffic (Paid search advertising).
 
SEM is a broader term than SEO. Where SEO aims to provide better organic search results, SEM uses the search engines to advertise your website or business to Internet customers and send a more targeted traffic to your Web site.
For example, when people use a search engine to query "fashion handbags", the organic search engine results is where SEO technologies can assist your Web site in being more visible. The paid advertising, or sponsored links are the ones prominently displayed above or beside the organic search results is a product of SEM.
SEO and SEM are not competing services. SEO is considered a subset of SEM services. If you want to conduct business on the Internet you need to be visible in both organic and advertised links, which means you need both SEO and SEM.

The primal question like this you can search on Google. It can be better and take less time of you :)
 
SEO(Search Engine Optimization)-It is a process of website optimization for getting organic traffic and to rank in Google.
SEM(Search Engine Marketing)-It is one of the internet marketing technique for promoting websites to get more visibility in search engines and getting instant or paid traffic to the website.
 
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is defined as optimizing your webpages to appear in first page of Google search results and it aims to provide better organic results. While, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is defined as marketing your brand through the paid advertisements with target of lead. These results are also known as inorganic search results or paid results.
 
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