.Precious Readers, S.e.o Pros, and Digital Marketing professionals,.Hi there, I am actually Jenise. I have actually been at the SEJ reins for 15 years, with Loren Cook and Brent Csutoras at my edge as large number proprietors and running companions.Yesterday, I awakened to a monumental item of information: SEO information publisher Internet search engine Land was actually obtained through advertising resource firm Semrush.There's an elephant in the room, thus permit's start there certainly.What occurs when a large search advertising sector gamer gets a popular media channel paid attention to the search marketing field?Will the publisher's insurance coverage stay objective and also agnostic? Will its own reliable manuals consist of the breadth as well as deepness of resources and systems and services accessible -- some of which reside in direct competitors along with Semrush?What takes place to Online search engine Land's reams and reams of existing information -- posts, white colored papers, books, videos-- that describe Semrush competitors (umm, as well as their links)?What concerning legitimate point of views coming from valued authors that manage counter to the new company gathering lines in some way? Will those representations still be actually posted, enhanced, estimated on SEL? Or even thinned down, or even silenced?So many questions.Community reactions, up until now, have actually been actually either of a benign, gratulatory attribute otherwise focused on worries of bias.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.SEL and also Semrush both have actually been actually active in answering on social media, restating that:." Our strategy is to continue to continue to be independent and also honest. Our target is to supply quality know-how as we always possess.".I carry out believe that these are their goals for the existing content staff, in the meantime.I wonder to find whether this freedom will stand up the examination of your time, after the dust has cleared up as well as the headlines of this purchase is actually lining our electronic bird crates.I have an interest in discovering if SEL's editorial flexibility are going to stand the exam of investor interests in an NYSE-traded business that made $305 thousand in revenue last year. I believe our team will definitely need to wait and observe.Here's Where Internet search engine Publication Stands Up.As being one of the final private authors in the search engine optimisation industry, SEJ stays bootstrapped and also unbossed.No one takes SEJ's strands, controls our back links, our insurance coverage, or our texting.That corrects. SEJ is the natural honey badger of s.e.o news: Our experts report what our company want, when we want, exactly how our team wish.SEJ is still committed to reporting the fact (properly, the reality until factors change along with the formulas) concerning what is actually taking place in s.e.o and also advertising and marketing.SEJ is still dedicated to providing objective education and learning and also greatest methods for our audiences.A.k.a. company as usual listed here at SEJ.Who Is Actually Search Engine Journal Anyways?Our group of 26 people around the world is actually composed of authors, editors, developers, technologists, the rear workplace who always keep factors managing easily, purchases operations. They create me so pleased, if I might talk a little.We encourage clarity, trial and error, obligation. Our experts do not put up with workplace politics or even toxic behavior. I enjoy to presume our experts're dense. Our team share, our team swear, we entertain one another with ridiculous memes. Our team have actually laughed together and also wept all together.Very most significantly, when the sh * attacks the supporter, our team gather. We move. Our team get rough. Repeatedly. I inquire the crew to attempt again, to strengthen, to maintain learning-- and they perform it. And also is actually when you know you possess an A-Team on your palms.That is actually the whole entire lineup. SEJ has no entrepreneurs. No business emperors. And our team want it in this way.Our self-reliance has been actually testing at times. It would behave to have a corporate Daddy Warbucks who can easily "darken the skies along with individuals," being one of my beloved experts ased if to say.Therefore it performs provide me stop when an opponent author is now backed by a multi-national business with over 1,000 staff members. That's a massive quantity of resources, firepower, and get to.However for many years, SEJ's independence has guaranteed our team's ability to provide one hundred% unprejudiced news and education and learning for the search advertising neighborhood.Our team perform what our company desire. And this is what I have faith in: That our audiences, our advertisers, our area will definitely provide what we need to have to be a tough David to this new Goliath.I accept your opinions, feedback, and ideas to create Online search engine Diary what the search advertising community needs it to become currently. Leave me a notification here, and I promise to reply.Jenise Uehara.CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Online Search Engine Journal.Featured Photo: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.