.Dear Viewers, S.e.o Pros, and Digital Online marketers,.Hello, I'm Jenise. I have actually been at the SEJ helm for 15 years, with Loren Baker and also Brent Csutoras at my side as a large number managers and operating companions.Yesterday, I awakened to a monumental piece of updates: s.e.o updates publisher Search Engine Property was actually acquired by marketing resource provider Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the space, therefore permit's start there.What takes place when a big hunt advertising and marketing field gamer purchases a prominent media outlet concentrated on the hunt advertising business?Will the publisher's insurance coverage continue to be unprejudiced and agnostic? Will its reliable resources consist of the breadth and intensity of tools as well as platforms and also services accessible -- some of which remain in straight competitors with Semrush?What occurs to Internet search engine Property's mounds as well as mounds of existing material -- articles, white colored documents, ebooks, videos-- that pertain to Semrush rivals (umm, not to mention their backlinks)?What about reputable viewpoints from respected authors that manage contrarily to the brand new corporate party lines somehow? Will those voices still be released, magnified, priced estimate on SEL? Or watered down, or maybe silenced?So many inquiries.Area responses, thus far, have been actually either of a favorable, congratulatory nature or paid attention to issues of prejudice.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.SEL as well as Semrush both have been active in responding on social media, stating that:." Our program is to remain to continue to be independent as well as unprejudiced. Our objective is to deliver premium know-how as our company always have.".I carry out believe that these are their motives for the existing content crew, meanwhile.I wonder to observe whether this independence will certainly stand up the examination of time, after the dust has actually cleared up as well as the information of this particular procurement is actually lining our digital bird cages.I have an interest in discovering if SEL's content independence will definitely stand up the test of shareholder rate of interests in an NYSE-traded company that created $305 million in earnings last year. I think we will certainly require to wait as well as view.Right here's Where Search Engine Journal Stands.As one of the last independent publishers in the SEO industry, SEJ continues to be bootstrapped and unbossed.No person pulls SEJ's strings, handles our back links, our insurance coverage, or our message.That corrects. SEJ is the natural honey badger of SEO writing: Our experts report what we want, when our company yearn for, how our team really want.SEJ is actually still devoted to reporting the reality (well, the fact till factors modify along with the formulas) concerning what is actually occurring in search engine optimisation and also advertising.SEJ is still dedicated to giving unbiased learning and also absolute best methods for our readers.A.k.a. service customarily listed below at SEJ.Who Is Actually Online Search Engine Diary Anyways?Our team of 26 folks all over the world is made up of authors, publishers, developers, engineers, the rear workplace who keep factors operating smoothly, purchases operations. They make me so happy, if I may brag a little bit of.Our company encourage openness, testing, liability. Our experts do not allow workplace national politics or even harmful actions. I enjoy to believe we're dense. Our company share, our experts swear, we amuse each other along with foolish memes. Our experts have actually chuckled together and burst into tears with each other.Very most essentially, when the sh * strikes the supporter, our experts gather. Our company rally. Our company obtain gritty. Over and over. I ask the group to try once more, to enhance, to keep learning-- and also they perform it. And also is actually when you know you have an A-Team on your palms.That is actually the whole entire lineup. SEJ possesses no capitalists. No business overlords. And our team want it this way.Our self-reliance has actually been actually testing at times. It would certainly behave to possess a company Dad Warbucks that can "dim the heavens along with individuals," as being one of my favored experts liked to point out.And so it carries out provide me stop when a rival author is actually now supported through a multi-national provider along with over 1,000 employees. That is actually a massive volume of information, firepower, and also reach.Yet over the years, SEJ's independence has actually guaranteed our team's capacity to deliver one hundred% honest journalism as well as education and learning for the hunt marketing community.Our company do what our experts want. As well as this is what I trust: That our readers, our marketers, our neighborhood is going to provide what our team need to have to be a powerful David to this brand new Goliath.I welcome your comments, comments, and also suggestions to create Online search engine Journal what the hunt advertising and marketing community needs it to become now. Leave me an information below, and I vow to respond.Jenise Uehara.CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Online Search Engine Diary.Included Graphic: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.