Differences between SEO and SEM
Deadlines
As we said at the beginning,
these two strategies are differentiated by the time they take to position or give
visibility to a website. The SEM is said to be short-term and long-term SEO .
In the case of the SEM, when it
comes to advertising campaigns, from the moment they are in operation, we will
begin to appear in the searches of the users. We must bear in mind that
depending on the budget we have for our campaigns, we will reach more or less
users. On the other hand, when we do not do SEM campaigns, but SEO, in order to
appear in the organic results, the work of many months is necessary.
Cost
The cost is another difference
between SEM and SEO. The SEM is paid , and we can choose between putting a
certain budget or what is known as PPC, pay per click, that is, each time a
user clicks on our campaigns we will pay. In contrast, SEO is free . However,
the hours of work invested are greater.
The position in the search engine
The SEM will always occupy the
beginning or end of the page , however, the SEO will place the pages in the
center of the search results . Usually between 10 and 15 results are displayed
on each page. The SEO technique will be the one that will decide in what
position our page is within these results.
Keywords
These two techniques are based on
the optimization of keywords , however, they have a difference in what the
approach does when we perform the strategy for one or the other.
Although there are different
tools for SEO and SEM, the Google keyword planner is often used in both to
start charting the strategy.
When we search for keywords, the
tool shows us all the words related to the chosen theme, as well as the volume
of monthly searches of each one, the difficulty and the level of competence.
But where is the difference? In
the case of SEM, we normally discard those keywords that have low volume of
searches , however, when we make a strategy with SEO, it is interesting to take
these keywords, to differentiate ourselves from the competition and accelerate our
positioning process.
Analysis Tools
Once we have the previous work
done, it is time to analyze the results obtained to continue improving. For
this, it is essential that in both cases we optimize the keywords and the texts
used to improve what is known as CTR, that is, the percentage of clicks
obtained versus total impressions.

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