.Beloved Visitors, SEO Pros, and Digital Marketers,.Hello, I am actually Jenise. I've been at the SEJ command for 15 years, with Loren Cook and also Brent Csutoras at my side as a large number proprietors as well as functioning partners.Last night, I woke up to a massive part of news: SEO headlines author Online search engine Land was actually acquired through advertising and marketing resource company Semrush.There's an elephant in the space, therefore let's start there certainly.What happens when a sizable search advertising business player purchases a prominent media channel paid attention to the search advertising and marketing business?Will the publisher's protection stay unprejudiced and also agnostic? Will its authoritative resources consist of the breadth as well as deepness of devices as well as systems as well as solutions accessible -- a few of which reside in straight competitors along with Semrush?What takes place to Online search engine Land's mounds and also mounds of existing material -- posts, white documents, e-books, video clips-- that describe Semrush rivals (umm, in addition to their back links)?What regarding qualified point of views from respected writers that manage contrarily to the brand-new business event lines somehow? Will those representations still be released, boosted, quoted on SEL? Or watered down, or even silenced?A lot of inquiries.Neighborhood reactions, up until now, have been actually either of a favorable, gratulatory attribute otherwise focused on problems of predisposition.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL as well as Semrush each have actually been actually energetic in responding on social networking sites, saying again that:." Our plan is actually to remain to continue to be private and honest. Our goal is to supply premium expertise as our experts consistently have.".I carry out think that these are their motives for the existing content staff, meanwhile.I'm curious to view whether this independence will definitely stand up the test of time, after the dirt has actually cleared up and the updates of the acquisition is actually lining our electronic bird cages.I have an interest in figuring out if SEL's editorial independence will stand the exam of shareholder enthusiasms in an NYSE-traded firm that made $305 thousand in revenue in 2014. I think we are going to need to have to stand by as well as find.Listed here's Where Online search engine Journal Stands.Being one of the final private authors in the search engine optimization market, SEJ stays bootstrapped and also unbossed.No person pulls SEJ's cords, handles our links, our protection, or even our texting.That's right. SEJ is the honey badger of SEO writing: Our team mention what our company wish, when our experts yearn for, exactly how our company want.SEJ is actually still devoted to reporting the reality (effectively, the fact up until points change with the formulas) regarding what is occurring in SEO and also advertising and marketing.SEJ is still devoted to offering impartial learning and greatest methods for our viewers.A.k.a. service as usual listed here at SEJ.That Is Online Search Engine Publication Anyways?Our group of 26 folks around the globe is actually made up of authors, publishers, designers, engineers, the rear workplace who always keep things managing effortlessly, sales procedures. They create me so pleased, if I may boast a little.Our team encourage openness, testing, obligation. Our company don't endure workplace national politics or harmful behavior. I like to presume we're dense. Our experts share, our experts swear, our company amuse each other with foolish memes. We have actually laughed all together and wailed with each other.Very most significantly, when the sh * strikes the enthusiast, our company pull together. We rally. Our company obtain gritty. Repeatedly. I inquire the team to try again, to improve, to maintain knowing-- and also they do it. Which is actually when you know you possess an A-Team on your hands.That's the whole entire roster. SEJ has no clients. No corporate overlords. As well as our company desire it by doing this.Our independence has actually been testing at times. It will be nice to possess a company Dad Warbucks who can easily "darken the heavens along with individuals," being one of my beloved consultants liked to point out.Therefore it performs provide me pause when an opponent publisher is actually right now supported by a multi-national provider along with over 1,000 employees. That is actually a huge volume of information, firepower, and get to.But over times, SEJ's freedom has actually guaranteed our team's potential to offer 100% impartial writing and education and learning for the hunt advertising community.Our company do what our experts yearn for. And this is what I believe: That our audiences, our marketers, our community is going to give what our company require to become an awesome David to this brand-new Goliath.I invite your opinions, responses, as well as suggestions to make Internet search engine Publication what the hunt advertising and marketing community needs it to be now. Leave me a notification below, and I assure to answer.Jenise Uehara.CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Internet Search Engine Publication.Included Graphic: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.