u/WebLinkr wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Hi u/michaelnovati \- Not sure if this is relevant to SEO, I doubt anyone in the community is out writing SEO hit pieces. FTR - an SEO agency in NYC with 42k backlinks (from a SEMRush audit of publicly available backlinks) wrote a post on LinkedIn that I'm a spammer for posting o
u/michaelnovati replied ·
Thanks for the reply, so the thing I'm confused about is like all the SEO influencers re-shared this thing so quickly to make it go viral, and they added kind of superifcial, "this is insane!" type messages.
I'm trying to understand if this is like an SEO tactic that SEO people use to build credibility in the SEO community.
The stuff Lars talks about in general is a combination of classic SEO stuff with a modern twist of this kind of manipulation tinge. "I can't say how I know this but the black hats...." kind of vibe.