Does anyone still think that automated comment links still work as a link building tactic?

RStar66 said:

I manage a couple of sites. Many of them rank really well, and obviously those that rank well constantly gets comment spam. The comment spam is clearly because there are still "SEOs" out there that think building links with comment spam still works.

What are your thoughts? I would especially like to hear from any of you that still build these types of links.

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AngelSeo said:

I ordered 20k such links for an Web 2.0 property, just to see if there will be any result (positive or negative) - so far nothing, but is like 2-3 days since it was delivered, so now waiting.

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RStar66 said:

I've done the same, but years ago. Think it was in 2016. Got no results for months, and then suddenly a manual action about 6 months later. Even after disavow and trying to remove all the links that I paid for (roughly 8k links) the manual action was removed, but the site never regained its original rankings.

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