.Dear Audiences, Search Engine Optimization Pros, as well as Digital Marketing professionals,.Hi there, I am actually Jenise. I've gone to the SEJ reins for 15 years, along with Loren Cook and also Brent Csutoras at my edge as large number owners and running partners.Yesterday, I got out of bed to a massive part of information: s.e.o news publisher Online search engine Land was actually acquired through advertising and marketing tool provider Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the room, so permit's start there.What occurs when a huge search marketing field player purchases a prominent media electrical outlet paid attention to the hunt advertising sector?Will the author's insurance coverage stay unprejudiced and agnostic? Will its authoritative guides consist of the width as well as deepness of resources as well as platforms as well as companies on call -- some of which remain in straight competition with Semrush?What occurs to Search Engine Property's reams as well as mounds of existing web content -- short articles, white colored papers, e-books, videos-- that pertain to Semrush competitions (umm, not to mention their back links)?What about trustworthy point of views coming from appreciated authors that run contrarily to the brand new company celebration lines in some way? Will those representations still be released, magnified, priced quote on SEL? Or even thinned, or perhaps quashed?Numerous inquiries.Area reactions, up until now, have been either of a favorable, gratulatory nature or else concentrated on concerns of predisposition.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.SEL as well as Semrush both have been active in answering on social media, saying again that:." Our strategy is to remain to remain individual and also honest. Our target is to provide premium expertise as our team constantly have.".I perform think that these are their goals for the existing content staff, in the meantime.I'm curious to find whether this self-reliance will stand up the exam of your time, after the dust has settled and the news of the procurement is lining our electronic bird cages.I have an interest in learning if SEL's content flexibility will definitely stand the test of shareholder passions in an NYSE-traded provider that made $305 thousand in earnings last year. I assume we are going to need to wait and also find.Listed below's Where Internet search engine Publication Stands.As being one of the final private publishers in the search engine optimization industry, SEJ remains bootstrapped and unbossed.Nobody pulls SEJ's strings, handles our links, our coverage, or even our texting.That corrects. SEJ is actually the natural honey badger of s.e.o writing: Our team mention what our team wish, when our experts wish, exactly how our company really want.SEJ is still dedicated to mentioning the fact (effectively, the honest truth up until traits change along with the algorithms) about what is actually taking place in SEO and advertising and marketing.SEJ is actually still dedicated to giving unbiased learning and ideal process for our visitors.A.k.a. organization customarily right here at SEJ.Who Is Search Engine Journal Anyways?Our crew of 26 people worldwide is actually made up of authors, editors, designers, technologists, the back workplace that keep things managing easily, sales procedures. They produce me so proud, if I might brag a little.We promote openness, trial and error, obligation. Our team don't endure office national politics or even poisonous actions. I love to think our team are actually dense. Our team share, our team cuss, our company entertain each other along with absurd memes. Our company have actually laughed all together and shed tears together.Most essentially, when the sh * hits the follower, we gather. Our company move. Our team acquire gritty. Time and time. I inquire the crew to make an effort once more, to boost, to always keep learning-- as well as they do it. And also is actually when you recognize you possess an A-Team on your palms.That's the entire lineup. SEJ possesses no entrepreneurs. No corporate emperors. As well as we prefer it that way.Our independence has been challenging at times. It would certainly be nice to have a company Father Warbucks that can easily "darken the skies along with individuals," as being one of my preferred consultants just liked to point out.Therefore it does give me stop briefly when an opponent publisher is actually currently supported through a multi-national firm along with over 1,000 workers. That's a significant quantity of resources, firepower, and also reach.However for many years, SEJ's self-reliance has actually ensured our team's potential to offer one hundred% impartial news and also learning for the hunt advertising and marketing neighborhood.Our company perform what we yearn for. And also this is what I have faith in: That our readers, our marketers, our area will definitely give what our team require to be a tough David to this brand-new Goliath.I accept your comments, feedback, and also concepts to make Search Engine Publication what the hunt advertising and marketing area requires it to become currently. Leave me a notification below, as well as I promise to respond.Jenise Uehara.CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Internet Search Engine Journal.Featured Image: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.