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WebLinkr is Annoying
Posted by on April 6, 2026 at 11:56 amDisclaimer: This is not a full-blown hate post, because I don't hate WebLinkr – I agree to many of his points. He is just annoying sometimes.
His Reddit and LinkedIn content seems to be leaning towards going to this Crusade of defending the 'right way' for SEO, and fighting the 'fakes'.
I mean, seriously, any SEO specialist worth their salt SHOULD already know the fundamentals of ranking: backlinks, relevance to the query, keyword, or search intent, 'adequate' technical SEO, yada yada.
But, should we limit our strategies and methodologies to just that? I don't think so – researching and finding out how we could make better SEO decisions should be a constant process to do, and that means occasionally making false or failed assumptions or tactics that just doesn't work.
It's just how it is – no one 100% figured out SEO or AI Search Optimization or GEO – everyone is trying their best – and that also includes you, WebLinkr.
To generalize all efforts and attempts to find better SEO methodologies and tactics other than 'the status quo' as "fake" or "useless" is just, to me, like 'what the fuck'.
… Of course, there are the scams who tout bullshit over there at other subreddits or LinkedIn, but good luck stopping those.
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This feels like a sponsored post for Weblinkr. You sound like a child. Nobody is going to feel negatively towards someone who knows a lot and shares it.
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I mean, that lad is pretty knowledgeable but he should touch grass 🙂
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1/10 WebLinkr ragebait. SEO is pretty easy when you avoid the random bs the broke freelancers be spamming.
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Nah. He’s like one of a few people a) holding back a torrent of spam and b) taking a rational evidence driven approach to SEO. Very grateful to him for keeping this place useful.
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I really like him tbh
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I like WebLinkr. I would give him a kidney even if he didn’t need one.
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If this post gets removed, then ykyk.
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I agree. WebLinkr obviously knows a certain way to do SEO but they’re very quick to put down any other methods. They’re often giving info that is simply not true and saying it with authority. Being a mod makes it worse too. I think it’s doing a massive disservice to this subreddit by having them as a mod.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen them say things like “X doesn’t work, it’s a fake myth” and it’s something easily verifiable as something that works.
It’d be one thing if they were just some random person we could downvote and ignore but the mod title makes it seem like they know what they’re talking about. I think it leads to a lot of people getting bad advice.
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No hate here on the post I can feel the frustration. There are totally evergreen core frameworks. SEO is just how digital mirrors physical psychology and behavior and sociology. There’s a few patents that help to understand it – pagerank; distances in link graph; reasonable surfer; corpora clusters stuff. You can def narrow down core best practice SEO from those things = there IS a WAY to do SEO, and it will never change. From my end WebLinkr has always done great in highlighting frameworks – this is not a kiss ass comment, I just respect algo frameworks. I can personally say off and on I’ve been able to manipulate algo with 95+% confidence and really fucked some shit up with it, but took months of research and testing. There’s always a way, and it still all sits on core foundations that have been around for many years.
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You’re not really saying anything other than: “the mod here makes me try to prove why what I did worked and it makes me angry.”
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Welcome to SEO. It’s not just weblinkr, our industry has this general attitude because it’s a naturally competitive space. “I am right, you are wrong, I win, you lose.” You meet these types in real life too and I’m even guilty of taking this attitude with non-SEO teams myself. Our work has been proliferated with scammers, spammers, snake oil salesman, fakes and lames since forever; defending the space against that stuff creates a stubborn almost pigheadedness when you’ve been doing it too long.
You can block him and just ignore.
One thing I always found strange is how someone has the time to both: be an up to date constantly engaged social media personality and manage enough SEO clients to merit the audacity. Something tells me weblinkr is more talk than walk. More book learned than street experienced.
I have been doing this for 15 years and I simply do not have the time to manage my clients and comment 100x a day on reddit never mind mod. I’m too busy with client work and real world experience. Most of us are. And isn’t working on clients that whole point? Success or failure? Isn’t that what experience is? As others have mentioned the proverbial “touching of grass?”
Take that for what you will.
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The problem is, SEO is filled with people claiming big things without any proof to back it.
So many people on LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube explaining you methods or concepts while never having ranked anything in their life. Yet, they feel the need to give their opinion on subjects they don’t master, nor understand.
u/WebLinkr can be blunt and relentless at time but he’s what people need. The guy clearly has credibility and expertise, and a whole lot to prove his claims.
In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need someone like him because they wouldn’t be so many grifters around, but right now, we need more professionals that aren’t afraid of publicly naming and shaming, not less.
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