.Beloved Audiences, S.e.o Pros, as well as Digital Marketing professionals,.Hello, I'm Jenise. I've gone to the SEJ reins for 15 years, with Loren Cook and Brent Csutoras at my side as bulk owners and also functioning companions.Yesterday, I got up to a massive part of information: search engine optimization headlines publisher Search Engine Property was purchased by marketing device provider Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the room, so allow's begin certainly there.What happens when a big hunt advertising and marketing industry player buys a famous media outlet paid attention to the search advertising and marketing industry?Will the publisher's insurance coverage stay objective and also agnostic? Will its own reliable guides include the breadth and also deepness of tools as well as platforms and also companies offered -- a number of which remain in straight competitors with Semrush?What happens to Search Engine Property's mounds and also reams of existing content -- articles, white colored papers, e-books, videos-- that pertain to Semrush rivals (umm, and also their backlinks)?What regarding dependable viewpoints coming from valued authors that manage contrarily to the brand new business event lines in some way? Will those voices still be actually posted, amplified, quoted on SEL? Or watered down, or maybe quashed?Many concerns.Neighborhood responses, until now, have actually been actually either of a benign, gratulatory nature or paid attention to problems of prejudice.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot 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, restating that:." Our planning is to continue to continue to be private and unprejudiced. Our goal is actually to provide top quality know-how as we consistently have.".I perform think that these are their goals for the existing content staff, in the meantime.I'm curious to see whether this freedom will stand up the test of time, after the dirt has actually cleared up and the news of this particular procurement is actually lining our electronic bird crates.I have an interest in determining if SEL's content liberty will stand up the examination of shareholder rate of interests in an NYSE-traded business that created $305 thousand in revenue in 2015. I believe our experts will certainly require to stand by and view.Right here's Where Internet search engine Journal Stands.As one of the last independent publishers in the search engine optimization business, SEJ continues to be bootstrapped as well as unbossed.Nobody pulls SEJ's strands, manages our back links, our insurance coverage, or our messaging.That's right. SEJ is the honey badger of SEO news: Our experts disclose what our experts desire, when our experts want, just how we yearn for.SEJ is actually still dedicated to stating the truth (effectively, the truth until factors transform along with the formulas) regarding what is happening in search engine optimisation and advertising.SEJ is still committed to giving honest learning and greatest practices for our visitors.A.k.a. business as usual here at SEJ.That Is Internet Search Engine Journal Anyways?Our team of 26 individuals around the globe is actually comprised of article writers, publishers, professionals, engineers, the back workplace who always keep traits managing properly, purchases functions. They create me so happy, if I may brag a little bit of.We motivate openness, trial and error, liability. Our company don't accept office national politics or dangerous actions. I love to think our company're close-knit. Our experts discuss, our team cuss, we delight each other with absurd memes. Our company have actually chuckled together as well as burst into tears together.Most essentially, when the sh * strikes the enthusiast, our company gather. We rally. We obtain sandy. Time and time. I inquire the crew to attempt once again, to enhance, to always keep knowing-- and they perform it. Which is when you know you have an A-Team on your hands.That is actually the entire roster. SEJ has no investors. No business emperors. And we prefer it that way.Our freedom has been actually challenging at times. It will be nice to have a corporate Daddy Warbucks that can "dim the heavens with people," being one of my favorite experts ased if to point out.And so it performs offer me stop when an opponent publisher is right now supported by a multi-national business with over 1,000 staff members. That's a significant amount of sources, firepower, and reach.However for many years, SEJ's freedom has actually guaranteed our group's potential to offer one hundred% unprejudiced news and also education and learning for the search marketing neighborhood.Our team perform what we desire. And this is what I have faith in: That our visitors, our advertisers, our area is going to deliver what our experts require to be an awesome David to this brand new Goliath.I welcome your reviews, reviews, and also concepts to create Search Engine Diary what the hunt marketing neighborhood requires it to become right now. Leave me an information listed here, and I assure to respond.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Internet Search Engine Diary.Featured Image: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.