Spamdexing, also known as webspam and black-hat SEO, is a set of practices aimed at manipulating search engine results and thus violating Google’s webmaster guidelines. Spamdexing provides no value for searchers, which makes search engines actively fight webspam.
Google’s anti-spamdexing solution is called SpamBrain. It helps them to keep more than 99% of searches spam-free.
Smapdexing methods can be divided into content spam and link spam.
Content spam includes:
Link spamdexing methods are:
The short answer is “NO.”
Here at Ahrefs, we disapprove of any black-hat SEO techniques.
However, it’s true that some spamdexing methods still work these days, especially in specific industries such as loans, gambling, adult, etc.
Black-hat SEO professionals are aware of the risks and know they can get a penalty from Google, and their websites will be deindexed. They’ll just migrate to a new domain - it’s part of their game.
However, if you’re serious about your website and want it to get steady organic search traffic in the long term, you should stay away from spamdexing.