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Shawna Newman
June 14, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention to the most vocal group of HCU-hit site owners on Twitter or not, but wow.

Today was a doozy in that space.

Actually, it started yesterday and then today was like wtf? are you serious?

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Agency SEOs Continue To Suck

It’s always been weird how much agency SEOs hate on the niche site/blogger crowd. Honestly, I’ve never really understood it.

I can only assume they’ve got some butthurt since they have a 9-5 while the rest of us been banking working from home in daytime PJs and sipping wine.

Okay, maybe that last part is me, but you get what I’m saying.

Anyways, yesterday I saw this agency guy (who I’ve noticed loves to antagonize this crowd) jump on a HCU-hit blogger’s tweet thread to just be a complete and total asshat.

I won’t link to that shit-show, you can see it quoted in this thread.

Then today, one of these HCU-hit peeps dropped some serious tea on Marie Haynes.

Apparently she is trying to sell a course, book, and workbook to all the HCU-hit people who gave her access to their site data.

For reals. You can’t make this shit up.

I’ll let you read all about it on Twitter at this link. You won’t even believe it’s real life until you see the screenshot.

Agency SEOs. wtf is their deal?

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Shawna

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