How is buying traffic and CTR manipulation for SEO boosting viewed by the industry?

In 2014, an SEO expert named Rand Fishkin conducted a small-scale study on CTR manipulation and found he could move his blog post from 7th position to 1st on a SERP within a few hours. He used real people reading his Tweets to make this happen. This was a cornerstone moment for SEO and evidence that CTR good drastically move pages up a SERP.

As well as purchasing website traffic, there are lots of other things you can encourage organic CTR and enhance your SEO: