.Dear Visitors, Search Engine Optimization Pros, as well as Digital Marketing experts,.Hi, I am actually Jenise. I've been at the SEJ command for 15 years, with Loren Cook as well as Brent Csutoras at my side as bulk managers and running companions.The other day, I got up to a massive piece of headlines: SEO information publisher Internet search engine Property was actually obtained by advertising tool firm Semrush.There's an elephant in the room, thus allow's start certainly there.What takes place when a large search advertising and marketing business player gets a noticeable media electrical outlet concentrated on the search advertising and marketing field?Will the publisher's coverage continue to be unbiased and also agnostic? Will its reliable quick guides feature the breadth as well as intensity of resources and platforms and solutions on call -- several of which are in straight competition along with Semrush?What occurs to Online search engine Land's reams as well as mounds of existing content -- write-ups, white papers, books, online videos-- that refer to Semrush competitions (umm, and also their links)?What concerning reputable views coming from valued writers that manage contrarily to the brand new corporate event lines somehow? Will those voices still be released, intensified, estimated on SEL? Or watered down, and even quashed?Plenty of inquiries.Neighborhood reactions, until now, have actually been either of a benign, gratulatory attribute or paid attention to problems of bias.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.SEL and also Semrush both have been energetic in reacting on social media sites, restating that:." Our program is actually to continue to remain private and also impartial. Our goal is actually to offer top quality expertise as our team regularly have.".I carry out strongly believe that these are their intents for the existing content staff, in the meantime.I wonder to find whether this independence is going to stand the exam of your time, after the dirt has resolved and the updates of this purchase is actually lining our digital bird cages.I have an interest in discovering if SEL's content freedom are going to stand the test of shareholder passions in an NYSE-traded firm that created $305 million in income last year. I assume our experts will certainly require to stand by and also find.Here's Where Internet search engine Journal Stands.Being one of the last independent publishers in the s.e.o industry, SEJ stays bootstrapped as well as unbossed.Nobody draws SEJ's strings, regulates our backlinks, our protection, or our texting.That's right. SEJ is actually the natural honey badger of s.e.o journalism: Our team state what we yearn for, when our experts really want, how we yearn for.SEJ is still committed to stating the honest truth (well, the honest truth up until factors alter with the protocols) about what is actually happening in search engine optimization and also advertising and marketing.SEJ is actually still dedicated to supplying impartial education and also finest methods for our viewers.A.k.a. company customarily here at SEJ.That Is Search Engine Journal Anyways?Our group of 26 individuals around the globe is actually made up of writers, publishers, designers, technologists, the rear office that always keep factors managing effortlessly, purchases procedures. They create me so pleased, if I may boast a little bit of.We urge clarity, testing, accountability. Our team don't tolerate workplace politics or even toxic behavior. I love to assume our experts're close-knit. Our company discuss, we swear, our team entertain one another with absurd memes. Our company have giggled with each other and also shed tears all together.Most essentially, when the sh * reaches the follower, our experts pull together. Our company move. We get gritty. Over and over. I inquire the crew to make an effort once again, to boost, to always keep learning-- as well as they do it. And that is when you know you have an A-Team on your palms.That's the entire lineup. SEJ possesses no clients. No business overlords. And also we desire it this way.Our freedom has actually been challenging at times. It would behave to have a business Dad Warbucks that may "darken the heavens with individuals," as being one of my preferred experts suched as to state.Consequently it carries out offer me stop briefly when a competitor publisher is now supported through a multi-national firm with over 1,000 employees. That is actually a monumental quantity of information, firepower, as well as reach out to.But over times, SEJ's self-reliance has actually ensured our crew's ability to supply 100% unprejudiced journalism and education for the hunt advertising area.Our experts do what our experts really want. As well as this is what I believe: That our visitors, our marketers, our neighborhood is going to provide what our company need to have to become a tough David to this brand new Goliath.I invite your comments, feedback, and also suggestions to make Search Engine Journal what the hunt advertising community needs it to be now. Leave me a notification here, and also I promise to reply.Jenise Uehara.CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Internet Search Engine Journal.Featured Image: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.