.Beloved Visitors, Search Engine Optimization Pros, and also Digital Marketers,.Greetings, I'm Jenise. I have actually been at the SEJ helm for 15 years, along with Loren Cook and also Brent Csutoras at my edge as majority proprietors and also working partners.The other day, I got up to a huge piece of news: SEO news author Online search engine Land was bought through advertising and marketing device provider Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the area, thus allow's begin there.What occurs when a huge hunt advertising field gamer gets a popular media channel concentrated on the hunt marketing field?Will the publisher's insurance coverage continue to be unprejudiced as well as agnostic? Will its own reliable overviews include the width as well as deepness of devices and platforms and services on call -- a number of which are in direct competition along with Semrush?What happens to Online search engine Property's reams and mounds of existing content -- short articles, white documents, digital books, videos-- that pertain to Semrush rivals (umm, as well as their backlinks)?What regarding qualified point of views from valued authors that manage contrarily to the new corporate gathering lines somehow? Will those voices still be actually released, magnified, priced quote on SEL? Or even thinned down, and even silenced?A lot of questions.Community responses, so far, have actually been actually either of a propitious, gratulatory nature otherwise focused on issues of bias.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL as well as Semrush each have actually been active in answering on social media, stating that:." Our planning is to continue to continue to be independent and also unbiased. Our target is to give quality knowledge as our experts always have.".I do believe that these are their intents for the existing editorial crew, for now.I'm curious to see whether this self-reliance will stand the test of your time, after the dirt has resolved as well as the headlines of this particular acquisition is actually lining our electronic bird crates.I have an interest in determining if SEL's content independence will certainly stand up the examination of investor enthusiasms in an NYSE-traded company that made $305 million in revenue in 2015. I believe we will certainly require to stand by as well as view.Here's Where Online search engine Diary Stands Up.Being one of the final private publishers in the s.e.o business, SEJ stays bootstrapped and unbossed.No one takes SEJ's strings, handles our links, our protection, or our texting.That's right. SEJ is actually the natural honey badger of SEO journalism: Our company report what our experts desire, when our company wish, exactly how we yearn for.SEJ is still committed to reporting the honest truth (effectively, the honest truth till things transform with the formulas) about what is actually happening in SEO and also marketing.SEJ is still dedicated to supplying unbiased learning as well as best practices for our viewers.A.k.a. business as usual listed below at SEJ.That Is Actually Internet Search Engine Publication Anyways?Our crew of 26 people around the globe is composed of article writers, publishers, developers, engineers, the back office who always keep traits operating efficiently, purchases procedures. They produce me so honored, if I may boast a little.Our experts promote transparency, testing, responsibility. We don't endure office politics or hazardous habits. I enjoy to think our company're close-knit. Our experts share, our team cuss, our team amuse each other with absurd memes. Our company have giggled all together and burst into tears together.Very most significantly, when the sh * strikes the enthusiast, we pull together. Our team move. Our experts acquire sandy. Over and over. I inquire the staff to attempt again, to improve, to keep knowing-- and they do it. And that is when you recognize you have an A-Team on your palms.That is actually the entire lineup. SEJ has no financiers. No company overlords. And our team wish it that way.Our independence has been actually testing at times. It would be nice to have a company Dad Warbucks that can "dim the skies with individuals," being one of my preferred consultants just liked to claim.Therefore it does give me pause when a competitor publisher is currently supported by a multi-national company along with over 1,000 staff members. That is actually a huge amount of resources, firepower, and also reach out to.However over times, SEJ's freedom has actually guaranteed our staff's potential to supply one hundred% unbiased writing as well as learning for the search advertising neighborhood.Our experts do what our team prefer. And also this is what I swear by: That our viewers, our advertisers, our community will definitely offer what our experts require to be an impressive David to this new Goliath.I welcome your comments, comments, as well as tips to make Search Engine Diary what the search marketing community requires it to be right now. Leave me an information here, and also I assure to respond.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Internet Search Engine Publication.Featured Graphic: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.