.Beloved Viewers, SEO Pros, and also Digital Marketers,.Hi there, I am actually Jenise. I've been at the SEJ helm for 15 years, along with Loren Baker and Brent Csutoras at my edge as large number owners and operating partners.The other day, I woke up to a huge part of updates: SEO headlines author Search Engine Land was actually acquired by advertising and marketing resource provider Semrush.There's an elephant in the space, therefore allow's start there certainly.What happens when a sizable search advertising and marketing market player buys a famous media electrical outlet paid attention to the hunt advertising business?Will the publisher's protection continue to be unprejudiced as well as agnostic? Will its reliable overviews include the width as well as depth of devices as well as systems and also solutions offered -- some of which remain in direct competitors with Semrush?What happens to Internet search engine Property's reams as well as reams of existing web content -- posts, white papers, e-books, videos-- that refer to Semrush rivals (umm, in addition to their links)?What about reliable viewpoints coming from valued writers that run contrarily to the brand-new company event lines somehow? Will those voices still be released, boosted, estimated on SEL? Or even thinned down, or perhaps quashed?Numerous inquiries.Area reactions, so far, have actually been either of a benign, congratulatory attributes or else paid attention to problems of prejudice.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL as well as Semrush each have actually been energetic in answering on social media sites, restating that:." Our strategy is to remain to continue to be private as well as objective. Our goal is to provide quality knowledge as we constantly possess.".I perform feel that these are their objectives for the existing content crew, in the meantime.I wonder to see whether this independence will definitely stand up the exam of your time, after the dust has worked out and also the updates of this particular acquisition is lining our electronic bird crates.I want discovering if SEL's content freedom are going to stand up the exam of shareholder rate of interests in an NYSE-traded provider that created $305 thousand in revenue in 2015. I presume our team will certainly need to stand by as well as find.Here's Where Online search engine Diary Stands Up.Being one of the final individual authors in the search engine optimisation field, SEJ remains bootstrapped as well as unbossed.No person pulls SEJ's strings, regulates our back links, our insurance coverage, or even our texting.That's right. SEJ is the natural honey badger of search engine optimisation journalism: Our company mention what our company want, when our company yearn for, how we wish.SEJ is still dedicated to disclosing the honest truth (well, the truth till traits transform along with the algorithms) concerning what is taking place in search engine optimization as well as advertising and marketing.SEJ is still devoted to offering impartial education and learning as well as ideal practices for our visitors.A.k.a. company customarily below at SEJ.Who Is Actually Internet Search Engine Journal Anyways?Our crew of 26 people worldwide is made up of writers, editors, professionals, technologists, the back workplace who keep points operating perfectly, sales functions. They create me so proud, if I may brag a little bit of.Our company encourage openness, testing, responsibility. Our company don't accept workplace politics or dangerous behavior. I love to assume our team are actually dense. We share, our company swear, we delight one another along with silly memes. Our company have giggled with each other as well as shed tears with each other.Most importantly, when the sh * strikes the follower, our company gather. Our team rally. Our company acquire sandy. Repeatedly. I talk to the group to attempt again, to boost, to always keep learning-- and also they do it. And also is actually when you know you possess an A-Team on your hands.That is actually the entire roster. SEJ has no entrepreneurs. No business emperors. And we desire it in this way.Our freedom has actually been challenging at times. It would certainly be nice to have a corporate Dad Warbucks who can "dim the heavens with people," as being one of my favorite consultants just liked to point out.Therefore it does offer me stop when a competitor publisher is actually right now backed by a multi-national company along with over 1,000 employees. That is actually a huge quantity of resources, firepower, as well as reach.But for many years, SEJ's independence has actually guaranteed our crew's ability to provide 100% unbiased journalism and also learning for the search advertising area.Our experts do what we wish. And this is what I believe: That our readers, our marketers, our area will offer what our team need to have to be an awesome David to this brand-new Goliath.I invite your remarks, reviews, and ideas to create Internet search engine Journal what the hunt marketing neighborhood requires it to be right now. Leave me a message right here, as well as I vow to reply.Jenise Uehara.CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Internet Search Engine Publication.Included Image: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.