Google’s John Mueller posted a cryptic tweets this morning with a dark photo with the date, October 5, 2021 imprinted on an object. John’s tweet says “A system of sites interlinked.” To me, this says Google has claimed interlinked sites as a link strategy as dead as of October 5th – but John did not say much more.
Here is the post on Twitter:
A system of sites interlinked. pic.twitter.com/WgCf8diAL3
— ???? John ???? (@JohnMu) October 6, 2021
He did add after a reply that asked “Wow. Backlinks are loosing worth?” John responded “Things were simpler then.”
Things were simpler then.
— ???? John ???? (@JohnMu) October 6, 2021
I asked John for more details but I am still waiting to hear:
would you like to add any additional details before I take this out of context?
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) October 6, 2021
I mean, he did go even more cryptic:
Many is the night I dream of cheese.
— ???? John ???? (@JohnMu) October 6, 2021
Heh.
Anything real should be a mess.— ???? John ???? (@JohnMu) October 6, 2021
What do you think this tweet means?
I think it is about Google figuring out a way to target link schemes that involve a lot of interlinked types of sites. Although, I would have thought that would have been solved in 2012, not 2021.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
