“Search Engine Marketing” was once was used as an umbrella term to encompass both SEO (search engine optimization) and paid search activities. Over time, the industry has adopted the SEM acronym to refer solely to paid search.
common terms:
+ Paid search ads
+ Paid search advertising
+ PPC (pay-per-click) *
+ CPC (cost-per-click) *
+ CPM (cost-per-thousand impressions) *

SEM is elaborated as Search Engine Marketing. It is the way in which you promote your website by optimizing or advertising.

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The concept behind Search Engine Marketing is quite simple: when a consumer or business person searches the Web through either a text box or by clicking through a directory hierarchy, he or she is in "hunt mode." This psychological state is unique because it signals to the search engine (and to marketers) that the person is looking for information, often of a direct or indirect commercial nature.

SEM is paid marketing only use paid.

SEM stands for Search Engine Marketing. It helps you get traffic through search engines and is beneficial for visibility of your website.

Search engine marketing is the process of gaining traffic by purchasing ads on search engines via paid links.

Search engine marketing simply called SEM. This is a technique which allow us to get more quality traffics on a particular keyword or phrase by spending some amount on it.

Search engine marketing (SEM) is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) through optimization and advertising

SEM is a form of Internet marketing that includes the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages through optimization and advertising or you can say that this is the way promoting your website in more effective manner!!!

Search engine marketing (SEM) is a form of Internet marketing that involves the promotion of websites by increasing their visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs) through optimization and advertising.

May be Search engine marketing, but i think content marketing is the more used term.

SEM means search engine marketing is a form of internet marketing.

Search Engine Marketing is the method of promotion and advertising through the net via websites, blogs and social networking channels. It is the procedure of creating attentiveness and traffic through online, affiliates and development of profits. One thing I want to say that, It is the super set of SEO.

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