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.
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