.Precious Audiences, Search Engine Optimization Pros, as well as Digital Marketers,.Hey there, I am actually Jenise. I have actually gone to the SEJ command for 15 years, with Loren Baker and also Brent Csutoras at my edge as large number proprietors and operating partners.The other day, I awakened to a huge piece of information: SEO updates publisher Internet search engine Land was actually acquired through advertising and marketing tool business Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the room, so permit's begin certainly there.What occurs when a huge hunt advertising and marketing sector gamer acquires a noticeable media channel paid attention to the search advertising field?Will the publisher's protection stay unbiased and agnostic? Will its reliable resources feature the width as well as intensity of tools and platforms as well as services accessible -- some of which reside in straight competition along with Semrush?What takes place to Search Engine Land's mounds and also mounds of existing material -- posts, white papers, e-books, video recordings-- that pertain to Semrush competitors (umm, in addition to their links)?What regarding legitimate point of views from valued authors that manage contrarily to the new business party lines in some way? Will those representations still be actually released, boosted, quotationed on SEL? Or watered down, or maybe quashed?Plenty of inquiries.Area reactions, until now, have been actually either of a benign, celebratory nature or concentrated on worries of predisposition.Screenshot from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL as well as Semrush both have actually been active in answering on social media, reiterating that:." Our plan is actually to remain to continue to be independent and also unprejudiced. Our objective is actually to provide premium expertise as our company regularly possess.".I carry out believe that these are their objectives for the existing editorial group, meanwhile.I'm curious to view whether this independence will certainly stand the test of your time, after the dust has actually resolved and also the news of this acquisition is lining our electronic bird cages.I have an interest in learning if SEL's editorial flexibility will definitely stand up the test of investor rate of interests in an NYSE-traded business that made $305 thousand in earnings in 2014. I think our team are going to require to stand by and see.Listed below's Where Search Engine Diary Stands.Being one of the last individual publishers in the SEO sector, SEJ stays bootstrapped as well as unbossed.Nobody draws SEJ's strands, handles our back links, our protection, or even our texting.That corrects. SEJ is the natural honey badger of search engine optimisation journalism: Our team report what our team wish, when we desire, just how our experts yearn for.SEJ is still committed to stating the truth (effectively, the reality until things modify with the formulas) concerning what is occurring in search engine optimization and marketing.SEJ is actually still committed to delivering impartial education and greatest methods for our audiences.A.k.a. service as usual right here at SEJ.That Is Search Engine Diary Anyways?Our group of 26 folks around the world is made up of article writers, publishers, developers, engineers, the back workplace that keep things running effortlessly, sales procedures. They create me so pleased, if I might boast a little bit of.Our experts motivate transparency, testing, accountability. Our experts do not accept office national politics or hazardous behavior. I like to assume we are actually dense. We share, our company cuss, our experts amuse one another with ridiculous memes. Our company have chuckled with each other and also wailed together.Most notably, when the sh * attacks the fan, our team gather. We move. Our team acquire rough. Over and over. I inquire the group to try again, to boost, to maintain learning-- and also they do it. And that is actually when you recognize you have an A-Team on your palms.That's the whole lineup. SEJ possesses no financiers. No company overlords. And also our team wish it that way.Our independence has been testing sometimes. It would certainly behave to possess a corporate Dad Warbucks that can easily "darken the skies along with people," being one of my favored professionals just liked to state.And so it performs give me stop briefly when a rival author is currently backed through a multi-national firm with over 1,000 staff members. That's a massive quantity of resources, firepower, as well as get to.Yet for many years, SEJ's independence has actually ensured our staff's potential to give 100% objective news and also education for the search advertising neighborhood.Our team perform what our company desire. As well as this is what I have faith in: That our audiences, our advertisers, our neighborhood is going to give what our team need to become a powerful David to this new Giant.I welcome your reviews, comments, and concepts to create Online search engine Publication what the hunt advertising and marketing area needs it to be now. Leave me an information listed below, and I promise to answer.Jenise Uehara.CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Internet Search Engine Publication.Featured Picture: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.