Ask What are the most common shortcuts in SEO that end up hurting people?

[Newman]

Some people try to speed up their SEO results by taking shortcuts, and it usually backfires badly. Buying links from random websites is one of the biggest mistakes beginners make. Google is very good at spotting unnatural link patterns, and it can penalize your site, which means your pages drop in search rankings or disappear completely. Keyword stuffing, which means repeating the same word too many times in your content, is another one. It makes your content unreadable and Google does not reward it anymore. So what do you think is the most damaging SEO shortcut people still use today?