.Dear Visitors, S.e.o Pros, as well as Digital Marketing experts,.Hi there, I am actually Jenise. I have actually been at the SEJ controls for 15 years, along with Loren Cook as well as Brent Csutoras at my edge as bulk owners as well as operating companions.The other day, I got out of bed to a massive piece of information: search engine optimization updates publisher Search Engine Property was obtained through advertising device business Semrush.There is actually an elephant in the space, thus allow's start there.What takes place when a sizable hunt marketing market gamer acquires a prominent media electrical outlet concentrated on the hunt advertising and marketing industry?Will the publisher's coverage continue to be objective as well as agnostic? Will its own authoritative overviews feature the breadth as well as deepness of tools and also platforms and services readily available -- a few of which are in direct competitors along with Semrush?What happens to Search Engine Property's mounds and mounds of existing content -- short articles, white documents, ebooks, videos-- that pertain to Semrush competitions (umm, in addition to their links)?What regarding legitimate point of views coming from appreciated authors that operate contrarily to the brand-new corporate gathering lines somehow? Will those representations still be actually released, magnified, estimated on SEL? Or weakened, or perhaps quashed?Many inquiries.Neighborhood reactions, up until now, have been either of a propitious, celebratory nature or else paid attention to issues of predisposition.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.SEL and also Semrush each have been actually energetic in answering on social networks, restating that:." Our program is actually to remain to remain individual as well as unprejudiced. Our objective is actually to supply high quality know-how as our company always possess.".I carry out strongly believe that these are their goals for the existing content team, for now.I'm curious to observe whether this self-reliance will stand the test of time, after the dust has actually worked out and also the news of the procurement is lining our digital bird crates.I want determining if SEL's editorial freedom will stand the exam of investor rate of interests in an NYSE-traded business that created $305 thousand in profits in 2014. I presume our company are going to need to stand by and also observe.Right here's Where Internet search engine Diary Stands Up.As being one of the final independent publishers in the s.e.o industry, SEJ remains bootstrapped and unbossed.Nobody draws SEJ's strands, handles our links, our insurance coverage, or our message.That's right. SEJ is actually the natural honey badger of SEO journalism: Our experts mention what our company yearn for, when our company desire, how we want.SEJ is still devoted to stating the honest truth (properly, the honest truth up until things alter with the algorithms) regarding what is taking place in SEO and also advertising.SEJ is actually still dedicated to offering impartial education and learning and best methods for our audiences.A.k.a. organization customarily right here at SEJ.That Is Actually Internet Search Engine Publication Anyways?Our team of 26 folks around the globe is composed of article writers, publishers, developers, engineers, the back office that maintain points managing perfectly, purchases functions. They make me so pleased, if I might boast a little bit of.We encourage openness, testing, obligation. Our team do not tolerate office politics or poisonous habits. I enjoy to believe our experts are actually close-knit. Our team share, we swear, we entertain each other along with ridiculous memes. We have actually laughed together and wept together.Most essentially, when the sh * hits the enthusiast, our company gather. Our company move. Our experts obtain rough. Repeatedly. I ask the crew to try once more, to strengthen, to always keep understanding-- and also they do it. And that is actually when you understand you possess an A-Team on your palms.That is actually the entire roster. SEJ possesses no clients. No company overlords. And our company want it this way.Our self-reliance has been challenging at times. It will be nice to have a business Dad Warbucks who may "darken the skies along with folks," as one of my favored experts just liked to state.Consequently it carries out offer me stop briefly when a rival author is right now backed through a multi-national firm along with over 1,000 workers. That's a significant amount of resources, firepower, and also get to.But over times, SEJ's independence has actually ensured our team's capacity to offer one hundred% honest writing and education for the hunt advertising and marketing neighborhood.Our company do what our experts prefer. As well as this is what I trust: That our visitors, our advertisers, our neighborhood will supply what our experts need to have to be an awesome David to this brand-new Goliath.I accept your opinions, feedback, as well as tips to make Internet search engine Journal what the search advertising area needs it to be now. Leave me an information below, and I promise to answer.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Internet Search Engine Diary.Featured Image: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.