Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing that seeks to promote websites by increasing their visibility in the result pages for searches nade by internauts. According to the Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization (way back when), SEM methods include: search engine optimization (or SEO) paid advertisement paid inclusion. These days Search engine marketing includes creating HubPages, squidoo lens, uploading files to scribd, article submission with links back to your primary sales site, blog entries, audio and video submissions and so many more.
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