Should I start my career in SEO or SEM?

I run a social media company and a SEO company.... If you know what your doing and provide an in demand service, you can make a lot from any of those. However, providing top quality work, service and communication is vital

I would focus on what i like instaed of what paid better .Both of them are very good fields where you can get nice money if you become good at them

I chose SEM just because I like the immediacy of getting leads today vs waiting for possibly months to get traffic to your website.

Both of them are fine.

Both are good, SEO it will take some time to earn money but it is liked a fixed income.

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SMM and SEM both are mostly same works based on paid advertisement. One is for targeting social media audience and one is for targeting google audience.

SEO is also good but it will take to give effect to your business but it is effective because it will help to improve brand popularity too.

If you will first start with SEO then your basic fundamentals will clear.

First SMM, SMO and then start SEO Services Well for your better Future

They are the same thing. They are all marketing.

Thank you all for your suggestions

SEO and SME are both good for career building.but in my opinion SEO is more better choice then SME for career buiding. yes, its take some time for earning but at the end it'll produce good results in the form of better paid

Yes surely you can start your career in SEO, SEM or SMM all of the three having good future ahead. If you are looking for job in DM as a fresher, do visit: 69jobs.com, freshersworld.com it will helpful to start your career.

career? if only you know nothing and someone is willing to training you from day 1

my suggestion if you are already an expert either in seo or sem, start your own business, better than work for someone else, plus go straight into sem, here you will earn the profit more faster

I do pay per call lead generation (using SEO) and honestly I'm VERY happy with that choice.

It's extremely passive and I don't have clients telling me what to do (or demanding things).

I wanted something that I could use to make money from anywhere in the world because at the time I was planning on moving with my wife to Denmark.

If you learn SEO and master it, you can make really good money.

That said, if you learn paid traffic and master it, you will make GREAT money.

You need a strong foundation and a hell of a budget (that you're willing to run through for testing) for paid traffic.

It's totally up to you though and I agree with the comment above about looking for something that you have an affinity for first and then try to tie it into SEO, SEM, Email marketing etc.

One piece of advice I do have though is whatever you choose to do, as long as it's a viable option and people are making money at it....don't fall into the habit of jumping from this project to that project to the next.

This is a sure recipe for disaster and will not give you enough time in any ONE find to really grind it out and become successful.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the advice guys, now I believe SEM gives faster results and more money ! I will not jump from one project to another.

If you know and you love what you are doing, go ahead! If you have doubts think again. You are lucky enough to be exposed in onpage optimization part of SEO. If you have knowledge about it then you can make money from it. There are a lot of people online that is looking for such service.

The one you can sell for the highest price and deliver what you promise.

Which one is it?