Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that you should not break Google’s guidelines even if a competitor does it without getting penalized:
Is your question "others are breaking the guidelines, can I do it too?"? You're welcome to use our spam report forms, but purposely breaking the guidelines if you want something out of them seems like a bad long term strategy…
— ? John ? (@JohnMu) November 5, 2019
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