Is it possible to increase traffic by linking to non-existent files?

Question

Google

Good afternoon. As far as I know, in addition to the fact that the search engine crawls the site itself, you can also send it a robots.txt file, with a sitemap (to be sure). Is it possible to provide as a site map not a link to a file, but a link to a search by name?
For example: the site has 1000 files and 500 unique titles. It turns out that in the robots.txt file there will be 500 links that lead not to a specific file, but to a search on the site. There will be 2 files per page.
And won't the search engine ban me if I link to non-existent files to attract traffic? Let's say I add another 500 links with names that are very popular in queries, and when I go to the site I will report that nothing was found (in the event that since I edited the robots.txt file, I have not added the file I'm looking for), but there are similar or just different files.

Answer 1

There is a feeling that the bots of Google, Yandex, etc. have not been completely fools for a long time :-)
And the fight against SEO has been going on with varying success for a very long time.
One can only guess, but offhand, the troubles that can be raked:
- the more links you have, the less weight they will have for the search engine;
- if the links contain non-unique content (according to rumors, this is now important), then their weight will be zero;
They will not ban - gouging is not punishable :-) and empty links in the sitemap are exactly what they are :-)

Answer 2

If you have a 404 error there, then in theory you will only make it worse.

Answer 3

You came up with a stupid way to stupidly deceive the search engine and not slip anything good into it and you will not improve your issuance, but simply increase your chances of getting a ban.
Buy cheap articles there, at least there will be some chance for search traffic.