Definition
Black-hat GEO covers tactics that manipulate the distribution of information without creating any real information: fabricated reviews, bulk-generated template content across low-quality sites, and attempts to manipulate model inputs directly.
Why it matters
These tactics do move numbers briefly and they do get cleaned up, by source domain and by entity. The party that takes the loss is the brand, not the agency that executed it.
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