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Obviously, there is a difference between Search Engine Optimization<\/a> (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing<\/a>. However, for the purpose of clarity, this article is poised to briefly discuss what makes SEO vs SEM<\/a> different taking into consideration their meaning and the basic features that are associated with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEO is an acronym that means Search Engine Optimization. This concept primarily is focused on optimizing a website in order to get traffic from organic search results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, SEM is an abbreviation to mean Search Engine Marketing, which means getting traffic and visibility from both organic and paid searches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other to better our understanding, Google\u2019s search results are in two forms which are paid search results and organic search results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, the aim of SEO is to rank your website in the organic search results, while getting your website in the paid area of the search results using pay-per-click (PPC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is obvious now that, SEO primarily deals with ranking in the organic results whereas SEM is when you tap into both SEO and PPC in order to get traffic from search engines<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can now agree with me that SEM is a wider concept that deals with SEO and PPC. That is to say, SEO is rather a product of SEM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the above insight, we shall now be going into: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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