What Is SEM? Can It Help You Make A Real Money?

Search engine marketing, or SEM, is a form of Internet marketing. People is using that to seek and promote websites by increasing their visibility in search engine result pages through the use of search engine optimization, paid placement, and contextual advertising.

In 2008, North American advertisers spent US413.5 billion on search engine marketing. The largest SEM vendors are Google AdWords, Yahoo!Search Marketing and Microsoft adCenter. As of 2006, SEM was growing much faster than traditional advertising and even other channels of online marketing. However, because of the complex technology, a secondary "search marketing agency" market has evolved. Many marketers have difficulty understanding the intricacies of search engine marketing and choose to rely on third party agencies to manage their search marketing.

To answer whether SEM can make the real money, the answer is absolutely yes. In the reality, many people are running the business online by SEM, also some of them are operating the advertisers by placing it in their own websites.

In recently, the evidence is showing that many of them even are making million dollars per year. In other words, they are earning ten thousand dollars per month. Trust me it indeed is true!