What is SEM?

Answered across 4 episodes of The Best SEO Podcast

The short answer

Search engine marketing, the broader category that includes both organic SEO and pay-per-click advertising.

How experts on the show define it

Search engine marketing, the broader category that includes both organic SEO and pay-per-click advertising.

From The Best SEO Podcast with Chris Burres and Matthew Bertram #458

A category of internet marketing comprised of three things: pay per click, pay for inclusion, and search engine optimization.

From Internet Marketing What is Internet Marketing/SEO? - Unknown Secrets to SEO E-Webstyle Number 1

The combination of SEO and PPC, covering any active effort to target keywords and run paid campaigns through search engines.

From Podcast 283 - Search Engine Marketing

Search engine marketing, which the hosts describe as the broader category that includes both pay-per-click advertising and search engine optimization.

From Is newspaper advertising finished? - Unknown Secrets of SEO E-Webstyle Number 16

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