What is the Difference between seo and sem?

[grabbit media]

It is pretty true that SEO is a part of SEM. But people misunderstood this concept and they think these are different terms.
SEO basically deals with the SERPs through various On and Off Page activities.
SEM includes SEO as well as Paid Promotion techniques like Adwords for Google.

 

[Dymtro]

You are okey with you concept. But I have seen many people using SEO and SEM as the same purpose. Like increasing visitors for their websites and sales.

 

[RH-Calvin]

SEOis a part of search engine marketing or SEM.SEOis a type of search engine marketing that helps to build your keyword ranking higher in search engines and also generate traffic from them. They help to build and maintain your online reputation.

 

[iammanisha]

seo is search engine optimization in which we do on page and off page seo techniques to rank our site well in search engines. while sem is search engine marketing in which we do promotions to increase traffic on our website.

 

[Nomad]

SEO is basically for organic ranking, where as SEM is for paid ranking. When you do SEO< your website is likely to appear on the high rank, sometimes that might not happen especially if you are targeting competitive keywords. However, through SEM you will be able to rank in paid search results.