.Precious Readers, S.e.o Pros, as well as Digital Marketing experts,.Hey there, I am actually Jenise. I have actually gone to the SEJ controls for 15 years, with Loren Baker and Brent Csutoras at my side as a large number proprietors as well as running partners.Last night, I got out of bed to a massive item of updates: SEO headlines publisher Internet search engine Property was acquired by marketing tool firm Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the room, therefore permit's start there.What happens when a large hunt marketing industry player acquires a noticeable media electrical outlet paid attention to the search advertising and marketing industry?Will the author's coverage remain unbiased and agnostic? Will its reliable resources consist of the width and also intensity of devices and also systems and also services on call -- a few of which reside in direct competition along with Semrush?What takes place to Online search engine Property's mounds and reams of existing content -- articles, white papers, e-books, videos-- that refer to Semrush competitors (umm, in addition to their backlinks)?What regarding dependable perspectives from respected authors that run counter to the brand-new corporate gathering lines somehow? Will those representations still be actually released, intensified, quoted on SEL? Or watered down, or maybe muted?Plenty of concerns.Area reactions, up until now, have actually been either of a favorable, congratulatory nature otherwise paid attention to worries of predisposition.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.SEL and Semrush each have actually been actually active in answering on social media, saying again that:." Our plan is to continue to continue to be private as well as honest. Our objective is to supply high quality know-how as our company regularly possess.".I perform believe that these are their intentions for the existing content group, for now.I wonder to view whether this self-reliance will stand the test of time, after the dust has cleared up and the information of this acquisition is lining our digital bird crates.I'm interested in figuring out if SEL's editorial liberty are going to stand the exam of investor enthusiasms in an NYSE-traded provider that created $305 thousand in profits in 2013. I think our team will definitely require to hang around as well as observe.Right here's Where Internet search engine Journal Stands Up.Being one of the final individual publishers in the search engine optimization market, SEJ continues to be bootstrapped and also unbossed.No one draws SEJ's strands, controls our backlinks, our protection, or even our messaging.That's right. SEJ is actually the honey badger of SEO journalism: Our team state what our company wish, when our experts wish, exactly how our experts yearn for.SEJ is actually still dedicated to mentioning the fact (properly, the reality till traits change with the formulas) concerning what is happening in SEO and marketing.SEJ is still committed to delivering unbiased education as well as absolute best methods for our audiences.A.k.a. service customarily listed here at SEJ.That Is Actually Search Engine Publication Anyways?Our crew of 26 people around the globe is made up of authors, editors, designers, engineers, the back office who always keep traits running perfectly, sales operations. They produce me so glad, if I might boast a little.Our company motivate clarity, trial and error, responsibility. Our company don't endure office politics or dangerous behavior. I like to assume our experts are actually dense. Our team discuss, our team swear, we amuse one another with absurd memes. We have chuckled all together and cried together.Very most significantly, when the sh * strikes the follower, our company pull together. Our experts move. Our experts receive sandy. Again and again. I talk to the team to try again, to boost, to always keep understanding-- as well as they perform it. And also is when you know you possess an A-Team on your palms.That is actually the whole lineup. SEJ possesses no real estate investors. No corporate emperors. And also our team prefer it in this way.Our independence has actually been actually testing at times. It will behave to possess a company Dad Warbucks that may "dim the skies along with folks," being one of my preferred specialists liked to point out.Therefore it carries out give me stop when a competitor author is actually right now supported through a multi-national firm along with over 1,000 employees. That's a monumental volume of resources, firepower, and also connect with.Yet over the years, SEJ's freedom has guaranteed our group's ability to give one hundred% unprejudiced news and education and learning for the hunt advertising and marketing neighborhood.Our experts perform what our company really want. And also this is what I swear by: That our viewers, our marketers, our neighborhood will definitely give what we need to be an impressive David to this brand new Goliath.I invite your comments, responses, as well as suggestions to create Search Engine Diary what the hunt advertising neighborhood requires it to be right now. Leave me a message here, as well as I promise to answer.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Search Engine Diary.Included Image: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.