What is SEM?

[temi]

What is SEM? Webmasters tends to use the term SEO to mean SEM. In the beginning when Internet was taking off, SEO seem to be the cover all terms for SEM, but as things evolved webmasters come to recognise that in addition to optimising your site for search engines, you need to market your site using other traffic platforms apart from search engines.

If you have a different understanding of what SEM is please let me know.

[RockDJ]

SEM = search engine marketing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_marketing

[rohnsmith]

sem- search engine marketing refers to paid advertising or sponsored advertising.If you want to get quick position in market and have good budget to spend then sem is the ultimate way to get quick result.

[aalabaha]

Hi Buddy!!!

SEM is optimizing your site for online business... is called SEM search engine marketing,...

thanks bye....

[jaikanth123]

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of marketing through internet oe e-mail marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engines like google,yahoo,bing,msn,result pages (SERPs) through the use of paid placement, contextual advertising and paid conclusion.

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setting up ppc campaingns

The paid per clicking (ppc)campaigns helps u to raise ur internet amrketing,and brings more trafficto ur website.so that marketing level will be increased.
these are some of two steps which enables for good marketing.

[infoquestit]

hi! Is Social media Optimization one of the part of SEO...?

[manisa]

Search engine is one type of the marketing source only which is similar to the search engine optimization.

[seofusion]

SEM is SEO + PPC (Pay Per Click Ad Marketing) :)

[bozonessinc]

I never got that on Webmaster Forums, I must admit. Apparently its called "Search Engine Marketing". Now, I'm trying to find out more about what this is. Anyone with experience in this? My biggest question is how is this different then SEO?

Caleb

[webcreationuk]

SEM - paid inclusion, traditional ads, ppc advertising

For promoting a website, SEO must be done first, followed by SEM, my 2$.