The Story

So – about a month ago, I shared three posts in r/TechSEO, moderated by a friend of mine – Patrick Stox, and they were really great posts on SEO:

• A post of a SEMrush chart of a site I built that had 50 pages, 50 backlinks and 19,000 SERP positions without Schema
• An Ahrefs post on how Schema showed no impact in helping Sites rank
• A copy of the Google Blog post about the AIO Guide they produced, which stated Schema didn’t help ranking.

As an SEO – I’ve been a committed myth buster. And I’ve had a fair share of entanglements and debates in SEO over the years, especially on Reddit. But none quite like this.

So – the posts I shared – caused a big stir for a handful of SEOs on TechSEO. What I didn’t realize or care about at the time, was that 3 of them were long time anti-Weblinkr types and detractors using multiple aliases (and openly admitted it – u/dingleberry_water is one, PeterWhiteWineclub is another – but he’s just seemingly angry at anyone and anyhting on Reddit and SEO) but MJMILIAN – another anonymous basement dweller Brit living in Thailand, grifting off SEO projects who got all angry that someone posted (the absolute truth) articles showing that Schema was inconsequential in SEO and now AI SEO/GEO/AIO – whatever you want to call it.

Odd – given that two of the articles were just copy+pasta – took 60 seconds. One of the names in the group of unmerry anonymous men called it “RageBait” – until I pointed out I exactly copied the blog titles from Google and Ahrefs! Yup – they were so incensed, so angry – that they accused me of “RageBait”

Reddit’s involvement in this: 0

We’ve reported the matter to Reddit at least 10 times – they don’t care – which means the mods now have to look after themselves. Why? Because this means we’re open to threats – which have already ensued. With this company claiming that if we unbanned them, they’d edit their post in the unhappy SEO pity party hosted by “MJMILIAN” (see below).

Here’s an example of Dingleberry_water admitting to stalking and holding multiple accounts that Reddit dont care about

Story Continues

PeterWineFunClub continued to grumble but MJMILIAN decided to go further – and this was his second attempt to perform both a failed character assination attempt and tie Weblinkr to an article from 6 years ago that went nowhere about the Mods of r/SEO – the dates don’t align and even though this was pointed out to him – MJMILIAN isn’t the kind of character (not that he has much character, mind) to be stopped by the truth or facts – decided to fabricate a whole post about Weblinkr and ramble on dreerily for 3 pages about how Weblinkr upset him. Go figure. Then he went to attack a Grokipedia profile and spill even more nonsense on the web.

You wouldn’t mind as much if these people ever help anyone in SEO atcually ever do anything – I’ll post some examples of the “expert quality” comments they make on Reddit.

But when the mods complained to DrJigsaw – the (sometimes) Mod of r/SEOGrowth – at this time still only populated by LLM/Bot spam – he made a weird post saying it was ok to attack other mods and himself. When I pointed out that the most upvoted comment in his sub (and I’m still the top commentor) was another member asking him to remove the spam in his sub- curiously he banned me! So I cna’t even defend myself (Weblinkr) there!

Here’s MJMILIANs triumphantly sad little comment “Relevent article”

 

So MJMILIAN emboldened went on to write his take down piece – rambling about multiple alias accounts and code of conduct – yet Dr Jigsaw saw fit to break them to platform them – much more important to him than keeping his sub full of LLM bot-spam like this: