SEO, SEM, SEA… what’s all this? Why is it important to understand the difference?

Many People don’t understand what their brand actually needs and it can cost them a fortune before they find out, let me help you out before you throw your money away.

Fer Rivero
3 min readSep 6, 2022

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Marketing can be simple with the right knowledge at hand, but sometimes, it is hard to capture all of the “wording” people use daily when working in the Digital Field.

Let’s go with the basics, SEM means Search Engine Marketing and is considered to be the main host of both SEO and SEA, where the first one refers to Search Engine Optimisation and the latest refers to Search Engine Advertising.

Just a reminder about Search Engines, Google keeps being at the top with 91.42% Market share compared to Bing, or the most common engine allowed in China called Baidu.

Let’s explain the 3 SEM/SEO/SEA concept with a simple example:

Imagine you have a business and start working to get it placed all over the internet, be found easily and be mentioned by blogs, websites and others…

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Fer Rivero

Artist, Singer, Writer and Digital Marketer. Author of Quantum Behaviours, Tales for the Mind and other titles :D