I can understand calling these actions out to an extent, but Lisa Barone has publicly stated it was not harassment in her opinion as the recipient of the comments.

The “slutty” elf blog post from 2008 is pretty gross, but I think if there is real abuse and harassment in the SEO community, the women who have been victims of it need to come forward and actually call out the abusers. Otherwise it’s going to continue to be seen as a personal attack, or trolling, of these so-called “SEO leaders”.

The only thing I’m offended by here is that John Doherty is considered an SEO leader and mentioned in the same breath as Rand and the rest. If he’s an SEO leader then SEO truly is dead.

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I can understand calling these actions out to an extent, but Lisa Barone has publicly stated it was not harassment in her opinion as the recipient of the comments.

The "slutty" elf blog post from 2008 is pretty gross, but I think if there is real abuse and harassment in the SEO community, the women who have been victims of it need to come forward and actually call out the abusers. Otherwise it's going to continue to be seen as a personal attack, or trolling, of these so-called "SEO leaders".

The only thing I'm offended by here is that John Doherty is considered an SEO leader and mentioned in the same breath as Rand and the rest. If he's an SEO leader then SEO truly is dead.

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