What is the Difference between seo and sem?

[Ajinkya Samark]

Hi,
SEO is the process of optimizing your web site for the purpose of getting free traffic from search engines. There are 2 main pillars of SEO, On-site SEO and off-site SEO. On-site SEO are rules you can apply to your website or blog so that it's more search engine friendly. Off-site SEO refers to the process of getting votes from other web sites for the purpose of increasing your web site's in the search engines.

Search engine marketing is a form of Internet marketing that involved the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPS) through optimization and advertising. SEM includes SEO tactics, as well as several other search marketing tactics.

[Akash Varma]

SEO is the process of optimizing your web site for the purpose of getting free traffic from search engines. An optimized web site is more easily understood by Search engine crawlers, so there are more chances of ranking higher in SERPS. Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is over and above SEO but it's only a subset of your overall Internet Marketing Strategy.

[sagabizsolutions]

SEO is about optimizing the web property to get better rankings
in the search results while SEM goes beyond SEO. It will get you more search
engine visitors like PPC advertising.

[Shambhavi]

SEO is Stand for (Search Engine Optimization) in which we make the organic Search traffic, through On&Off page activities by following the google search engine guidelines. Beside this, the SEO gives the organic result very slowly but its remain still permanently for  a long time. On the other hand SEM is stand for (Search Engine Marketing) which is totally base upon the paid bidding system and able to get the instant traffic to your website.     

[nancyisabell]

SEO - Search engine optimization (Organic result which you not need to pay to show result in SERP result)
SEM - Pay per click (Need to paid show result in SERP result)

[clapcreative]

SEO is Seach Engine Optimizations used to rank in Search Engines and in the other hand SEM is Social media marketing used to gain specific audiences to sites and increase revenue.

[naizsmile]

What is sem?
I dont know that meaning of sem, can u tell me bro?

[arindamdutta16]

SEM mean of search engine marketing. This is use for promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result page. SEO is essential for improving website visibility and increasing traffic. SEO is the process of improving the visibility and ranking of a website or web page in the organic search engine results presented in Google and the other major search engines.

[harryblossom0]

The difference between SEO and SEM is simply that Search Engine Optimization is part of Search marketing as it is widely known. Both processes aim in increasing visibility in search engines. SEO is about optimizing the web property to get better rankings in the search results (SERP) while SEM goes beyond SEO. It involves other methods as well which can get you more search engine visitors like PPC advertising, Paid marketing.