Been in the game a while, but curious how blackhat SEO trends have shifted lately — what's working for you rn?

Yo, been doing this for a good few years now but honestly feels like the landscape keeps moving under our feet every few months, so figured I'd ask instead of just going off my own bubble.

Is AI content still ranking ok for you guys or is Google catching onto it way faster now? Feels like it's a different story every update.

Also — PBNs still seem to be holding up well for me when built and maintained properly (diverse hosting, real content, aged domains etc). Curious if others are seeing the same, or if you've had them get burned lately?

Anyone messed with expired domains lately? Curious if that's still a solid play or more hit or miss these days.

And cloaking... still viable in any form or basically dead at this point?

Mostly just trying to sanity check what's real vs what's just old advice getting recycled over and over on forums. What's something that used to work great for you but completely stopped after the last update or two?

Drop your experiences, good or bad, always down to compare notes

Good content plus strong internal linking is outperforming most tricks for me.

Money site > Buffer sites / Money Robot one time blast / Reddit (love it but now going to hate due to shitty unexpected bans) > GSA tier 2 + Indexer >> Tier 3 works like a charm and has been working for me. However 30% informative traffic drop but it's not much since I am getting informative traffic increase from DuckDuckGo and I am still heavily dependent on SEO and I don't think I will have to switch

ai content still works, but only if it's heavily improved. straight ai output feels a lot less reliable now. expired domains and pbns can still work, but they're nowhere near as consistent as they used to be.
I think depending on one tactic is the biggest risk today. the sites that last usually mix good content with solid SEO fundamentals.