How much did you spend in money in order to get those ads working, I'm pretty sure you would down in the end. And what I mean is exactly someone like you, giving advice like that fake traffic will boost SEO and stuff like that. Ads are very tricky, beside being in an actual marketing team for a company like coca-cola where spending is mostly done on creating brand value, spending ads on others product ands ads while they are themselves promoting will be very hard.
Most of the case studies you read the thread owner is promoting some kind of thing at the end, good case studies these days on BHW are pretty rare. Even the guy supporting you is a SEO seller who's trying to outreach like a spammy bot for his SEO service, money, in the end you are a customer here and he's supporting the 10x thing, funniest thing ever. And is service are the spammiest links ever found on the internet like what.
Most of the stuff posted here will give you an idea of what is done but some of it is false and misleading. None of the methods or SEO service here will rank your website on the "first page", if it does it won't be for a long time before being penalized.
Let's be honest most of it these days is pretty hard, it's not 2014 or 2015 where you could spam youtube with videos, the ways to make money have become very business like as I mean, if you want to survive on google these days you need to be a brand.
You want to be spoon fed here by being active in the "community", most of it is outside of it in discord groups these days and it's pretty hard to get into.