These “tactics” are exactly what search engines punish.
Search engines make money on ads, and they serve ads to customers that use them because they give accurate results. If you are trying to write something because it lists higher up, but doesn’t have substance, eventually search engines will figure it out and your site will be treated appropriately.
But more than that, it makes the web worse. Please don’t make the web worse. Every time you try an “SEO tactic”, a kitten goes prematurely bald.
Citation, please. I searched for that quote and can’t find it. Apparently the people that said it didn’t publish it in a way that search engines like…