.Beloved Visitors, S.e.o Pros, as well as Digital Marketers,.Hey there, I'm Jenise. I have actually gone to the SEJ helm for 15 years, along with Loren Baker and Brent Csutoras at my edge as bulk managers and functioning partners.The other day, I got up to a monumental piece of updates: search engine optimization news publisher Search Engine Property was actually acquired through advertising resource firm Semrush.There's an elephant in the room, thus let's begin there certainly.What occurs when a big search marketing field gamer acquires a popular media outlet paid attention to the hunt marketing business?Will the publisher's coverage continue to be unprejudiced and also agnostic? Will its own reliable quick guides consist of the width and intensity of devices and platforms and also solutions on call -- a few of which remain in straight competitors along with Semrush?What takes place to Online search engine Land's reams and also mounds of existing material -- posts, white colored papers, books, video clips-- that refer to Semrush competitors (umm, not to mention their back links)?What about reliable views from respected writers that manage counter to the new business event lines in some way? Will those voices still be published, boosted, estimated on SEL? Or weakened, or maybe quashed?So many inquiries.Area responses, until now, have been either of a propitious, celebratory attribute or else focused on concerns of bias.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL and Semrush each have been actually active in responding on social media sites, saying again that:." Our planning is to remain to remain independent and unbiased. Our target is actually to supply quality knowledge as we regularly possess.".I do feel that these are their intentions for the existing content group, in the meantime.I'm curious to view whether this freedom will stand up the test of time, after the dust has settled as well as the news of the acquisition is lining our digital bird crates.I have an interest in learning if SEL's content liberty are going to stand the test of shareholder passions in an NYSE-traded provider that made $305 million in profits in 2013. I believe we will require to hang around and also find.Here's Where Online search engine Diary Stands.As one of the last private authors in the s.e.o business, SEJ stays bootstrapped as well as unbossed.No one pulls SEJ's cords, controls our back links, our insurance coverage, or even our messaging.That corrects. SEJ is actually the honey badger of search engine optimisation journalism: Our team disclose what our experts wish, when our experts desire, exactly how we really want.SEJ is still dedicated to reporting the reality (effectively, the fact up until things alter along with the protocols) about what is occurring in search engine optimization and also advertising.SEJ is still dedicated to supplying unprejudiced learning as well as greatest process for our viewers.A.k.a. business as usual listed below at SEJ.Who Is Online Search Engine Journal Anyways?Our group of 26 people all over the world is actually composed of writers, publishers, designers, technologists, the back workplace that maintain factors running smoothly, purchases functions. They create me so honored, if I may boast a little.We encourage transparency, testing, responsibility. Our company do not tolerate workplace national politics or even poisonous habits. I enjoy to assume our team are actually close-knit. Our company share, we cuss, our company amuse one another along with silly memes. Our company have actually laughed with each other and also wailed all together.Very most significantly, when the sh * strikes the fan, our team pull together. Our team move. We obtain abrasive. Again and again. I ask the group to make an effort again, to enhance, to maintain learning-- and also they perform it. Which is when you recognize you possess an A-Team on your hands.That is actually the whole lineup. SEJ has no investors. No company emperors. As well as our team want it in this way.Our self-reliance has actually been actually testing sometimes. It will be nice to have a company Daddy Warbucks who can "dim the skies along with individuals," being one of my beloved professionals just liked to say.And so it performs give me stop briefly when an opponent author is actually currently supported through a multi-national firm with over 1,000 employees. That is actually a huge amount of resources, firepower, and also get to.Yet throughout the years, SEJ's self-reliance has guaranteed our group's ability to offer one hundred% unbiased journalism and education and learning for the search advertising community.Our experts do what our company prefer. And this is what I have faith in: That our visitors, our marketers, our community will certainly supply what we require to be an impressive David to this new Giant.I welcome your reviews, comments, and ideas to make Internet search engine Diary what the hunt advertising community needs it to be now. Leave me an information below, and I assure to answer.Jenise Uehara.CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Online Search Engine Publication.Featured Photo: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.