.Precious Readers, SEO Pros, and also Digital Online marketers,.Hi, I'm Jenise. I have actually gone to the SEJ reins for 15 years, along with Loren Cook as well as Brent Csutoras at my edge as large number managers as well as working partners.Yesterday, I got up to a massive piece of updates: s.e.o headlines author Internet search engine Land was actually purchased by marketing device provider Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the room, so let's start certainly there.What takes place when a sizable search advertising and marketing business player acquires a famous media channel focused on the hunt advertising field?Will the publisher's coverage stay unprejudiced and also agnostic? Will its authoritative overviews consist of the width and depth of devices and also systems as well as services on call -- a few of which remain in direct competition along with Semrush?What takes place to Internet search engine Property's reams and also reams of existing content -- short articles, white papers, e-books, online videos-- that describe Semrush competitions (umm, in addition to their backlinks)?What regarding dependable views from valued writers that run counter to the brand new company event lines in some way? Will those representations still be actually posted, enhanced, priced estimate on SEL? Or thinned down, and even quashed?Plenty of inquiries.Community reactions, so far, have actually been actually either of a benign, complimentary attribute otherwise concentrated on issues of predisposition.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.SEL and also Semrush both have been active in responding on social media sites, repeating that:." Our strategy is actually to remain to continue to be independent and also impartial. Our objective is to give premium understanding as we always have.".I carry out strongly believe that these are their intentions for the existing editorial staff, in the meantime.I'm curious to see whether this self-reliance will stand up the examination of your time, after the dirt has cleared up and also the updates of the acquisition is lining our digital bird crates.I'm interested in finding out if SEL's content independence will definitely stand up the test of shareholder enthusiasms in an NYSE-traded firm that created $305 million in revenue in 2013. I presume our experts will definitely require to wait and also observe.Right here's Where Internet search engine Journal Stands Up.Being one of the final private publishers in the SEO business, SEJ stays bootstrapped and unbossed.Nobody draws SEJ's cords, manages our back links, our protection, or our messaging.That corrects. SEJ is actually the natural honey badger of s.e.o journalism: Our company mention what our experts yearn for, when our company want, just how our team yearn for.SEJ is actually still devoted to mentioning the fact (properly, the fact until factors alter with the protocols) concerning what is happening in s.e.o and also advertising and marketing.SEJ is actually still devoted to offering honest education and learning and also absolute best methods for our viewers.A.k.a. organization customarily listed below at SEJ.That Is Online Search Engine Diary Anyways?Our group of 26 people around the globe is comprised of authors, editors, professionals, engineers, the rear office that keep things running effortlessly, purchases functions. They make me so honored, if I might talk a little bit of.Our experts urge clarity, trial and error, liability. Our team don't endure workplace politics or even poisonous behavior. I appreciate to believe our company're close-knit. We discuss, our team swear, our company amuse each other with absurd memes. Our company have actually giggled with each other as well as wept together.Very most notably, when the sh * strikes the fan, our team pull together. We rally. Our company get gritty. Over and over. I talk to the group to try once more, to strengthen, to keep knowing-- and also they do it. And also is when you understand you have an A-Team on your hands.That's the entire roster. SEJ possesses no financiers. No corporate overlords. And also our experts desire it this way.Our self-reliance has actually been actually challenging sometimes. It would certainly behave to possess a company Daddy Warbucks who can easily "dim the heavens with folks," as being one of my favored professionals just liked to claim.Therefore it carries out offer me stop briefly when an opponent publisher is actually right now supported through a multi-national business with over 1,000 employees. That is actually a monumental quantity of resources, firepower, as well as reach.However for many years, SEJ's self-reliance has actually guaranteed our group's capability to offer one hundred% unbiased journalism and also education and learning for the search advertising area.Our experts perform what our experts really want. And also this is what I trust: That our viewers, our marketers, our community will definitely give what we require to become a formidable David to this brand-new Goliath.I invite your remarks, comments, and also ideas to create Internet search engine Diary what the hunt advertising neighborhood needs it to become currently. Leave me a message right here, and also I guarantee to respond.Jenise Uehara.CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Internet Search Engine Publication.Featured Photo: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.