.Dear Visitors, Search Engine Optimisation Pros, and also Digital Online marketers,.Greetings, I'm Jenise. I have actually been at the SEJ controls for 15 years, with Loren Cook and Brent Csutoras at my side as majority owners and operating partners.Last night, I got out of bed to a massive piece of updates: search engine optimisation headlines publisher Online search engine Property was actually purchased through marketing resource business Semrush.There's an elephant in the room, thus permit's begin certainly there.What happens when a large hunt advertising market gamer buys a famous media channel concentrated on the hunt advertising and marketing business?Will the publisher's insurance coverage continue to be unbiased and also agnostic? Will its authoritative overviews feature the breadth as well as depth of tools and also systems as well as companies on call -- some of which are in direct competitors along with Semrush?What occurs to Internet search engine Property's mounds and also reams of existing web content -- write-ups, white documents, books, video recordings-- that describe Semrush competitors (umm, in addition to their back links)?What about reliable point of views coming from appreciated writers that run contrarily to the brand-new corporate gathering lines somehow? Will those voices still be released, enhanced, estimated on SEL? Or even watered down, and even quashed?Many questions.Neighborhood responses, up until now, have actually been either of a propitious, gratulatory attribute or else focused on concerns of prejudice.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from LinkedIn, October 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from LinkedIn, Oct 2024.Screenshot from X (Twitter), October 2024.Screenshot coming from X (Twitter), October 2024.SEL and also Semrush both have actually been active in answering on social media sites, stating that:." Our plan is to remain to continue to be private and also unbiased. Our target is to provide high quality understanding as we constantly possess.".I do strongly believe that these are their intents for the existing content staff, in the meantime.I'm curious to view whether this freedom is going to stand up the exam of your time, after the dirt has actually worked out and the news of this acquisition is lining our electronic bird cages.I'm interested in determining if SEL's editorial liberty will stand up the examination of investor enthusiasms in an NYSE-traded company that made $305 million in revenue in 2015. I assume our company are going to require to hang around as well as observe.Below's Where Internet search engine Journal Stands Up.Being one of the last individual publishers in the search engine optimisation business, SEJ remains bootstrapped and also unbossed.No one takes SEJ's strands, manages our back links, our insurance coverage, or our messaging.That corrects. SEJ is actually the honey badger of SEO journalism: We mention what we want, when our company desire, exactly how our company desire.SEJ is still devoted to mentioning the fact (well, the reality up until factors modify with the protocols) about what is actually happening in s.e.o and marketing.SEJ is still devoted to offering objective education and learning and ideal practices for our visitors.A.k.a. company as usual listed here at SEJ.Who Is Online Search Engine Publication Anyways?Our staff of 26 folks worldwide is comprised of authors, publishers, developers, engineers, the back workplace who always keep things running properly, purchases procedures. They create me so happy, if I may boast a little bit of.Our team promote transparency, trial and error, liability. Our experts do not endure workplace politics or poisonous actions. I enjoy to assume we are actually dense. Our experts share, our company cuss, we amuse one another with ridiculous memes. Our experts have laughed all together and burst into tears with each other.Very most importantly, when the sh * strikes the follower, our company pull together. Our company move. Our company receive abrasive. Over and over. I ask the team to make an effort again, to boost, to keep knowing-- and also they perform it. And also is actually when you recognize you possess an A-Team on your hands.That's the whole entire roster. SEJ has no real estate investors. No company emperors. And our team want it by doing this.Our independence has actually been challenging sometimes. It will behave to have a business Dad Warbucks that may "dim the skies along with people," as being one of my favored experts suched as to state.Therefore it does give me stop when a rival author is actually currently backed through a multi-national firm with over 1,000 workers. That's a massive amount of sources, firepower, and also connect with.But over the years, SEJ's freedom has ensured our staff's ability to offer one hundred% impartial news and education and learning for the hunt marketing neighborhood.Our team perform what we yearn for. And this is what I swear by: That our viewers, our advertisers, our neighborhood is going to provide what we need to be an impressive David to this new Goliath.I invite your reviews, reviews, and suggestions to create Internet search engine Publication what the hunt advertising area needs it to be right now. Leave me a notification here, and I guarantee to reply.Jenise Uehara.CEO, Online Search Engine Journal.Included Picture: Tanveer Anjum Towsif/Shutterstock.