.Dear Readers, S.e.o Pros, and Digital Marketers,.Hi there, I am actually Jenise. I've gone to the SEJ command for 15 years, along with Loren Baker and Brent Csutoras at my edge as large number owners and also functioning companions.Last night, I got out of bed to a significant part of news: search engine optimization news publisher Online search engine Land was actually obtained by marketing resource firm Semrush.There's an elephant in the space, therefore allow's begin certainly there.What occurs when a huge search marketing market player buys a popular media outlet concentrated on the search marketing industry?Will the author's protection continue to be unbiased as well as agnostic? Will its own authoritative guides include the breadth as well as intensity of resources and also systems and services offered -- some of which reside in direct competition with Semrush?What happens to Internet search engine Property's mounds and mounds of existing web content -- write-ups, white documents, e-books, videos-- that pertain to Semrush competitions (umm, furthermore their back links)?What regarding reputable viewpoints from appreciated authors that manage contrarily to the new corporate gathering lines somehow? Will those representations still be actually published, intensified, quoted on SEL? Or even thinned down, and even quashed?Numerous inquiries.Community reactions, until now, have been actually either of a propitious, complimentary attribute or else focused on issues of predisposition.Screenshot from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL and Semrush both have actually been actually energetic in responding on social networks, stating that:." Our program is to remain to stay independent and unprejudiced. Our target is to provide high quality understanding as we always have.".I carry out think that these are their goals for the existing content staff, in the meantime.I wonder to find whether this freedom will certainly stand the exam of time, after the dirt has actually resolved and also the information of this particular purchase is lining our electronic bird crates.I have an interest in discovering if SEL's editorial flexibility are going to stand the test of investor interests in an NYSE-traded firm that created $305 thousand in revenue in 2014. I think our experts are going to require to stand by as well as find.Listed here's Where Internet search engine Diary Stands Up.As one of the final independent authors in the search engine optimisation sector, SEJ remains bootstrapped and also unbossed.Nobody pulls SEJ's strings, handles our links, our insurance coverage, or our message.That's right. SEJ is actually the natural honey badger of SEO writing: Our team disclose what our team prefer, when we prefer, just how we really want.SEJ is still committed to mentioning the truth (effectively, the truth till things change along with the formulas) concerning what is occurring in s.e.o as well as advertising and marketing.SEJ is still dedicated to giving objective education and learning and also best practices for our visitors.A.k.a. organization as usual listed here at SEJ.Who Is Internet Search Engine Diary Anyways?Our staff of 26 folks around the globe is actually comprised of article writers, publishers, developers, engineers, the back workplace who maintain traits running efficiently, purchases operations. They produce me so happy, if I may talk a little bit of.Our company motivate clarity, trial and error, accountability. We don't accept office politics or harmful actions. I appreciate to believe our company're close-knit. We share, we swear, our team entertain each other with absurd memes. Our team have actually laughed together and wailed with each other.Very most importantly, when the sh * strikes the supporter, our team pull together. Our team rally. Our team acquire rough. Over and over. I ask the team to try again, to enhance, to maintain discovering-- and they do it. And also is actually when you know you have an A-Team on your hands.That is actually the whole lineup. SEJ possesses no clients. No company overlords. And we want it that way.Our independence has actually been actually testing sometimes. It would be nice to have a company Father Warbucks that may "darken the skies along with people," as one of my beloved experts liked to say.And so it carries out offer me stop briefly when an opponent publisher is actually right now supported through a multi-national firm along with over 1,000 workers. That is actually a significant volume of sources, firepower, as well as reach.But for many years, SEJ's freedom has ensured our group's capability to give one hundred% objective news and also education for the hunt advertising and marketing area.Our experts perform what our experts desire. As well as this is what I trust: That our readers, our advertisers, our area will definitely deliver what our team require to become a formidable David to this brand-new Goliath.I welcome your opinions, feedback, and ideas to create Search Engine Journal what the search advertising community needs it to become now. Leave me an information below, and also I guarantee to answer.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Internet Search Engine Diary.Featured Image: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.