Google Hints It Will Target With Lots Of Interlinking Link Schemes?

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.