John Mueller of Google responded to a complaint on Reddit where the SEO or site owner was upset his one month old site was not performing on Google Search. The SEO said despite him “created backlinks on top websites with good DA and low spam score” his site is just not showing up.
John reacted to this story, and I wanted to put his reaction at the top of this story, so you can read it before you read the rest below:
Here was his post, “I have created backlinks on top websites with good DA and low spam score but its been 1 month and still I’m unable to see my backlinks getting index on google search. I cant even find them on Semrush. Is there any solution or I have to wait more?”
John Mueller’s response was like a teacher giving a harsh one-on-one to a kid who caused trouble in class. John replies:
(1) You are wasting your time:
(2) You are focused too much on the tools:
(3) Throw your strategy away and focus on long term, real effort strategies:
So the response from the SEO was that he has “no technical issues” on his site and the “content is of good quality and unique” but he is super upset about his backlinks (which makes no sense but okay). He then goes to list that he has “dofollow links” from sites like HotFrog, Yelp, Foursquare, Chamber of Commerce. He then demands that his “backlinks cant be ignored.”
So John Mueller replies again in a harsher but caring way:
I would have just gone with the snark from the beginning and saved time.
Here is another one from this morning on Twitter, I guess John was in the mood of giving out lessons:
