If we SEO's didn't have it hard enough already, google is fighting us tooth and nail.
How do they expect us to rank if nobody can find our backlinks?
Barry Schwartz aka @rustybrick interviewed John Mueller a week ago and we got several different vague answers.
[John] It sounds like it was too useful in some sense. So that's it's something where sometimes we get a lot of abuse to some of these features and the team has to figure out ways to kind of deal with that abuse in an elegant way. And that it doesn't affect most normal users but it's still able to kind of catch these issues that we run into.
So I believe, especially the the submit URL feature, is something that obviously you can use submit spam as well and some people have used that for example to submit hacked content on a website. Which is all not really what what the tool is meant to be used for. So finding a way to deal with that elegantly sometimes takes a bit of experimentation and trying things out.
Barry keeps pushing him to admit it was because of webmasters abusing the tool and he vaguely admitted it. Since late February, webmasters have been seeing a huge delay in getting their links indexed. Some news outlets and even twitter are not indexing for 12 hours or so.
How will we be able to know about the news if google won't tell us about it?
Here is the video of John Mueller telling us all about it.
BTW: Its been 9 days and this link isn't indexed via search console, nor site: operator in google.
But search plain url, its there. Very odd google!!
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