Remember when black hats would try to do this using VPNs and refreshing the page 1000 times using private browser tabs? I’m wondering if anyone has tried this recently.
Find other ways to generate brand name searches, like podcast appearances, YouTube videos, free resources, etc. Anything that’s not natural is going to spike up and down, and get removed pretty quickly as a suggested SERP
Your thinking is on the right track – I used to write python scripts to scrape public proxies and automate google searches and parse through the results until my url was found, click through to the page, spend time on page and navigate, then disconnect. Would usually have 10-20 connections/browsers going at a time. This is an old black hatty tactic that actually used to work quite well and still does, probably, but google is a lot smarter these days. You’d have to use rotating back connect residential proxies, which are very expensive and unreliable usually. But yeah I mean it can be done, just not with a vpn lol. You wouldn’t be able to do enough searches and clicks to make any sort of measurable difference whatsoever.
