.Dearest Visitors, SEO Pros, and also Digital Marketing experts,.Greetings, I'm Jenise. I have actually gone to the SEJ reins for 15 years, with Loren Baker and also Brent Csutoras at my edge as a large number managers and working partners.Yesterday, I awakened to a massive piece of headlines: search engine optimisation headlines publisher Internet search engine Land was actually purchased through advertising device firm Semrush.There's an elephant in the room, therefore allow's begin certainly there.What occurs when a huge hunt advertising market gamer purchases a popular media electrical outlet focused on the search marketing sector?Will the publisher's protection continue to be objective and also agnostic? Will its own authoritative overviews consist of the width and also deepness of devices and systems as well as solutions offered -- a number of which are in straight competitors with Semrush?What happens to Internet search engine Property's mounds and also reams of existing content -- short articles, white colored papers, digital books, online videos-- that pertain to Semrush competitions (umm, and also their back links)?What about credible views coming from valued authors that manage counter to the new corporate event lines somehow? Will those representations still be actually released, intensified, estimated on SEL? Or thinned down, or even muted?So many questions.Community responses, until now, have actually been actually either of a propitious, gratulatory attribute otherwise concentrated on problems of predisposition.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL as well as Semrush each have been active in responding on social media, reiterating that:." Our planning is actually to remain to stay private and objective. Our objective is to provide quality know-how as our experts regularly have.".I do think that these are their goals for the existing editorial crew, in the meantime.I wonder to observe whether this freedom will definitely stand the exam of time, after the dust has settled and also the news of this particular purchase is lining our electronic bird crates.I have an interest in finding out if SEL's editorial flexibility will definitely stand up the exam of investor passions in an NYSE-traded business that made $305 million in profits in 2015. I assume we will certainly need to have to stand by as well as observe.Listed below's Where Search Engine Journal Stands.As being one of the final individual publishers in the s.e.o market, SEJ continues to be bootstrapped as well as unbossed.Nobody pulls SEJ's strings, manages our back links, our insurance coverage, or our texting.That corrects. SEJ is the honey badger of search engine optimisation news: We mention what our company yearn for, when our experts desire, how our experts wish.SEJ is still devoted to mentioning the truth (effectively, the honest truth up until things transform along with the algorithms) regarding what is actually taking place in SEO as well as advertising.SEJ is actually still devoted to giving unprejudiced education and learning as well as finest practices for our visitors.A.k.a. organization customarily right here at SEJ.That Is Actually Search Engine Diary Anyways?Our staff of 26 people around the world is comprised of article writers, editors, designers, technologists, the back office who keep traits running effortlessly, sales functions. They produce me so glad, if I might boast a little bit of.Our company encourage clarity, trial and error, liability. Our team don't endure workplace national politics or even toxic behavior. I love to assume our company are actually close-knit. Our team share, our company swear, our experts delight each other with absurd memes. Our company have actually chuckled together as well as wailed all together.Very most importantly, when the sh * strikes the supporter, our team pull together. Our experts move. We acquire gritty. Repeatedly. I talk to the staff to try once more, to strengthen, to keep learning-- and they do it. Which is when you recognize you have an A-Team on your hands.That's the entire roster. SEJ possesses no investors. No company overlords. And our team desire it this way.Our freedom has actually been actually challenging sometimes. It would certainly behave to have a business Daddy Warbucks who can easily "dim the skies along with people," being one of my beloved consultants ased if to say.And so it carries out offer me pause when a rival publisher is right now backed by a multi-national provider along with over 1,000 employees. That is actually a significant amount of sources, firepower, as well as reach out to.But over the years, SEJ's self-reliance has actually guaranteed our staff's ability to offer 100% objective writing and also education for the hunt advertising and marketing neighborhood.Our experts perform what our company desire. And this is what I trust: That our visitors, our advertisers, our neighborhood will supply what our team need to become an impressive David to this brand-new Goliath.I accept your comments, reviews, and tips to create Search Engine Publication what the hunt advertising area needs it to be currently. Leave me an information here, and I guarantee to reply.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Internet Search Engine Diary.Featured Photo: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.