.Dearest Visitors, S.e.o Pros, and also Digital Marketing experts,.Hello there, I am actually Jenise. I have actually been at the SEJ command for 15 years, with Loren Cook and also Brent Csutoras at my edge as large number owners as well as running companions.The other day, I got up to a huge item of headlines: SEO information publisher Internet search engine Property was actually acquired by advertising resource business Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the room, so permit's begin there.What takes place when a big search advertising sector player gets a popular media outlet paid attention to the hunt advertising and marketing sector?Will the author's insurance coverage stay unprejudiced as well as agnostic? Will its authoritative quick guides consist of the width and also intensity of resources as well as platforms and companies available -- some of which reside in direct competition along with Semrush?What happens to Internet search engine Land's mounds and reams of existing material -- articles, white colored papers, digital books, video recordings-- that refer to Semrush competitors (umm, as well as their back links)?What regarding trustworthy perspectives coming from respected writers that operate counter to the brand-new corporate gathering lines somehow? Will those voices still be posted, amplified, estimated on SEL? Or even watered down, or maybe muted?Plenty of inquiries.Community responses, thus far, have actually been either of a propitious, gratulatory attribute or paid attention to worries of predisposition.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL and Semrush both have been actually active in reacting on social media sites, reiterating that:." Our strategy is actually to continue to stay independent and also unbiased. Our goal is to provide top quality expertise as our team consistently possess.".I do feel that these are their motives for the existing content staff, meanwhile.I'm curious to observe whether this self-reliance will certainly stand up the test of your time, after the dust has actually cleared up and the updates of this procurement is lining our digital bird cages.I want determining if SEL's content flexibility will definitely stand up the test of shareholder enthusiasms in an NYSE-traded firm that made $305 thousand in profits in 2013. I believe our company are going to require to stand by and find.Right here's Where Search Engine Publication Stands.Being one of the last independent publishers in the s.e.o market, SEJ remains bootstrapped and also unbossed.Nobody takes SEJ's strands, regulates our back links, our insurance coverage, or even our messaging.That corrects. SEJ is actually the honey badger of search engine optimization journalism: Our experts state what our team yearn for, when our company want, how our experts yearn for.SEJ is still dedicated to mentioning the fact (effectively, the truth till factors transform along with the protocols) regarding what is actually taking place in search engine optimisation and advertising.SEJ is actually still dedicated to giving honest education as well as finest process for our audiences.A.k.a. company customarily right here at SEJ.That Is Internet Search Engine Publication Anyways?Our team of 26 folks all over the world is actually comprised of article writers, editors, designers, engineers, the rear office who maintain points operating perfectly, purchases procedures. They make me so happy, if I might talk a little bit of.Our experts encourage openness, testing, responsibility. Our company don't accept workplace national politics or hazardous habits. I enjoy to think our experts are actually dense. Our team discuss, our team swear, our experts amuse each other along with absurd memes. Our team have chuckled together and also burst into tears all together.Most significantly, when the sh * attacks the enthusiast, our experts gather. Our experts move. Our team obtain abrasive. Again and again. I inquire the crew to try once again, to enhance, to always keep understanding-- and they do it. And that is when you know you have an A-Team on your hands.That is actually the whole lineup. SEJ possesses no financiers. No corporate overlords. As well as our company wish it by doing this.Our self-reliance has been testing sometimes. It would be nice to have a corporate Father Warbucks that may "darken the heavens along with folks," being one of my preferred specialists just liked to state.Therefore it does offer me stop when an opponent publisher is actually now backed through a multi-national firm with over 1,000 workers. That is actually a huge amount of resources, firepower, as well as reach out to.However for many years, SEJ's self-reliance has guaranteed our group's potential to give 100% unbiased writing and also education for the search marketing neighborhood.Our experts do what our experts wish. As well as this is what I have faith in: That our viewers, our marketers, our area is going to offer what our experts require to be a powerful David to this new Giant.I invite your comments, comments, and also suggestions to create Search Engine Diary what the search advertising area requires it to become now. Leave me an information here, and also I assure to respond.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Online Search Engine Journal.Featured Graphic: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.