What is the difference between SEM or SMM ?

SEO means Search Engine Optimization

SMM means Social media marketing

SEM means search engine marketing

What the difference?

Not a great deal. If you create good keyword rich content and then distribute to various channels you will always get good rankings.

Quentin

SEM= Search engine marketing
SMM= Social media marketing

SEM involves managing all aspects of the search engines, including SEO and paid search.

SMM involves optimizing social media campaigns on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

SEO is Search Engine Optimization in which we optimize our website for search engines to increase its visibility and SMM is Social Media Marketing which includes promotion of websites through Social Bookmarking, networking websites, forums posting, blog and article posting, and many more.

SEM is the way of promoting your website on search engines using SEO or PPC techniques

SMM is the way of promoting your site on different social media websites e.g. social bookmarking site, blogs, forums etc.

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages (SERPs) through the use of paid placement, contextual advertising, and paid inclusion. The industry peak body Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO), includes search engine optimization (SEO) within its reporting, and SEO is also included in the industry definitions of SEM by Forrester Research, eMarketer, Search Engine Watch, and industry expert Danny Sullivan. The New York Times defines SEM as 'the practice of buying paid search listings'.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.

What is the difference between SEM or SMM ?

One has an M in the middle and the other and E? Sorry for the joke here but this is the problem with jargon. It becomes meaningless outside the core group.

You do SMM? Umm ok and I have no clue.

Oh so you are a SMM (Social Media Manager) that does SMM (Social Media Management) and SMM (Social Media Marketing)?

I know that is a that is a bit extreme and silly but literally I have seen SMM used for all 3.

I literally came into this thread not sure which SMM he meant. So here is a business and sales tip that is universal..... "Don't use Jargon!"

As for the question assuming the last M means marketing....

Search Engine Marketing = Marketing done via search engines. This could be PPC or SEO and even content marketing depending on how you view it.

Social Media Marketing = Marketing done on social media.

All the SE or SM stand for is where the marketing will take place.

So later today I am going to do some FBM, TM, YTM, CLM, WM, maybe even a bit of DMM. Damn my day sounds full. I better have a big bowl of alphabet soup for lunch.