.Beloved Readers, Search Engine Optimisation Pros, and Digital Marketing professionals,.Hello there, I am actually Jenise. I've gone to the SEJ helm for 15 years, along with Loren Cook as well as Brent Csutoras at my side as a large number owners as well as operating companions.Last night, I woke up to a huge item of updates: s.e.o news author Internet search engine Property was actually acquired by marketing device company Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the space, thus let's start certainly there.What occurs when a huge hunt marketing field player purchases a popular media electrical outlet concentrated on the search advertising and marketing field?Will the publisher's insurance coverage stay unbiased and also agnostic? Will its reliable manuals feature the width and deepness of devices and also platforms as well as solutions offered -- several of which reside in direct competition along with Semrush?What occurs to Online search engine Property's mounds and also reams of existing content -- write-ups, white papers, e-books, video recordings-- that pertain to Semrush competitors (umm, as well as their back links)?What concerning legitimate perspectives from recognized authors that run counter to the new corporate celebration lines somehow? Will those voices still be released, magnified, priced estimate on SEL? Or weakened, or maybe muted?A lot of concerns.Neighborhood reactions, up until now, have actually been either of a favorable, gratulatory attribute or else concentrated on concerns of predisposition.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL as well as Semrush both have been actually active in responding on social media sites, repeating that:." Our strategy is actually to remain to stay independent as well as objective. Our objective is to deliver quality knowledge as our experts regularly have.".I perform strongly believe that these are their intents for the existing editorial group, in the meantime.I wonder to observe whether this freedom will stand the exam of your time, after the dust has actually worked out as well as the headlines of this particular procurement is actually lining our electronic bird crates.I'm interested in discovering if SEL's editorial liberty are going to stand the test of investor enthusiasms in an NYSE-traded business that created $305 million in earnings in 2014. I assume our company will definitely need to wait as well as see.Below's Where Search Engine Diary Stands Up.As being one of the last independent publishers in the search engine optimisation business, SEJ remains bootstrapped as well as unbossed.No one pulls SEJ's cords, handles our back links, our insurance coverage, or even our messaging.That's right. SEJ is the honey badger of SEO news: Our company state what our experts wish, when our team desire, exactly how we wish.SEJ is still devoted to mentioning the fact (effectively, the fact till things modify with the protocols) about what is happening in search engine optimization and also advertising and marketing.SEJ is still committed to providing objective learning as well as best process for our audiences.A.k.a. service as usual below at SEJ.That Is Internet Search Engine Journal Anyways?Our group of 26 people all over the world is actually composed of article writers, publishers, designers, technologists, the back office that keep things managing smoothly, sales operations. They produce me so proud, if I might talk a little.Our company encourage openness, testing, liability. We don't put up with workplace national politics or even poisonous behavior. I like to assume our company are actually dense. Our team share, our experts swear, we amuse each other along with absurd memes. Our experts have giggled with each other and wept together.Very most significantly, when the sh * hits the fan, our company gather. Our team rally. Our team obtain sandy. Over and over. I inquire the staff to attempt again, to strengthen, to always keep understanding-- as well as they do it. And also is actually when you know you possess an A-Team on your palms.That's the whole lineup. SEJ possesses no capitalists. No corporate overlords. And also our team prefer it by doing this.Our self-reliance has actually been challenging at times. It would certainly be nice to possess a company Father Warbucks that may "darken the heavens with people," being one of my favored specialists suched as to mention.Consequently it performs give me stop when an opponent publisher is actually right now supported by a multi-national company along with over 1,000 employees. That's a huge amount of information, firepower, and also reach.But over the years, SEJ's self-reliance has actually guaranteed our group's capacity to give one hundred% unprejudiced writing and also education and learning for the search advertising community.Our company perform what our team yearn for. And also this is what I have faith in: That our visitors, our advertisers, our neighborhood will definitely deliver what our experts need to be an awesome David to this new Giant.I welcome your opinions, feedback, and suggestions to make Internet search engine Journal what the search advertising and marketing area requires it to be now. Leave me an information right here, and also I guarantee to reply.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Online Search Engine Journal.Included Photo: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.