Ten years ago, Rhea Drysdale, who I interviewed here, defended the SEO industry by stopping an individual from trademarking “SEO.” I have stories on this from ten years ago on Search Engine Land named “Meet The 25-Year-Old Who Saved “SEO” From Being Trademarked” and here named “Why The SEO Industry Is Special.”

Here is the story from Rhea’s blog named SEO Trademark Registration Terminated. She wrote:

I am not going to go through all of the history, you can read them in any of those posts. But Rhea is still here, still fighting the battle and still caring for the industry.

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