.Dearest Readers, S.e.o Pros, and also Digital Marketers,.Hey there, I am actually Jenise. I have actually gone to the SEJ helm for 15 years, along with Loren Cook as well as Brent Csutoras at my edge as large number owners and running partners.The other day, I got up to a significant item of headlines: search engine optimisation information publisher Search Engine Property was obtained by advertising and marketing device firm Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the room, thus permit's start there certainly.What happens when a huge search advertising and marketing business gamer acquires a noticeable media electrical outlet paid attention to the hunt advertising market?Will the publisher's coverage stay unprejudiced and also agnostic? Will its reliable manuals feature the breadth and also depth of tools and also systems as well as companies available -- a few of which remain in direct competitors along with Semrush?What takes place to Online search engine Property's reams and reams of existing content -- short articles, white colored documents, books, online videos-- that refer to Semrush competitions (umm, furthermore their back links)?What about dependable point of views coming from recognized authors that operate counter to the brand-new company party lines in some way? Will those voices still be released, magnified, quoted on SEL? Or thinned down, or even silenced?Plenty of concerns.Area responses, until now, have actually been either of a favorable, gratulatory nature or else concentrated on concerns of bias.Screenshot from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL as well as Semrush each have actually been energetic in reacting on social media sites, reiterating that:." Our planning is to remain to continue to be individual and unprejudiced. Our objective is actually to supply top quality understanding as our company consistently possess.".I perform believe that these are their goals for the existing content crew, meanwhile.I'm curious to observe whether this freedom is going to stand up the exam of time, after the dust has worked out and also the headlines of the procurement is lining our electronic bird crates.I have an interest in determining if SEL's content flexibility will definitely stand up the exam of investor passions in an NYSE-traded firm that made $305 thousand in earnings in 2014. I believe our team will require to wait as well as observe.Below's Where Search Engine Journal Stands Up.As one of the last private publishers in the s.e.o sector, SEJ stays bootstrapped as well as unbossed.Nobody takes SEJ's strands, handles our back links, our protection, or our texting.That corrects. SEJ is the natural honey badger of search engine optimisation journalism: Our company state what we want, when our team desire, just how we really want.SEJ is actually still committed to stating the reality (well, the fact till things alter along with the protocols) about what is occurring in search engine optimisation and advertising.SEJ is actually still dedicated to offering honest education and finest practices for our audiences.A.k.a. company as usual here at SEJ.Who Is Online Search Engine Journal Anyways?Our staff of 26 individuals around the world is composed of article writers, editors, professionals, technologists, the back workplace that always keep points operating efficiently, purchases procedures. They make me so glad, if I may boast a little.Our experts promote clarity, experimentation, obligation. Our team do not accept workplace national politics or even hazardous behavior. I like to believe our experts are actually dense. Our team discuss, our experts cuss, we amuse each other along with crazy memes. We have chuckled together and wailed together.Most significantly, when the sh * attacks the supporter, our team pull together. Our team rally. Our company acquire rough. Again and again. I ask the crew to make an effort once more, to enhance, to always keep understanding-- as well as they do it. And that is when you understand you have an A-Team on your hands.That's the whole roster. SEJ possesses no capitalists. No corporate emperors. And also our company prefer it by doing this.Our freedom has been actually challenging at times. It would certainly be nice to possess a business Daddy Warbucks that may "darken the heavens with people," as being one of my favored professionals just liked to point out.Consequently it carries out provide me stop briefly when a competitor author is actually now supported by a multi-national firm along with over 1,000 staff members. That's a significant quantity of information, firepower, and get to.However over the years, SEJ's self-reliance has actually ensured our team's capacity to give 100% honest journalism and also learning for the hunt advertising neighborhood.Our company do what our team really want. As well as this is what I believe: That our visitors, our marketers, our area is going to deliver what we need to be a powerful David to this brand new Goliath.I welcome your reviews, comments, and ideas to create Search Engine Diary what the hunt advertising community needs it to become currently. Leave me an information right here, and also I guarantee to reply.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Online Search Engine Publication.Included Photo: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.