SEO story about link explosion without punishment?

Question

Google

The history of observation of one of the competitors.
Niche: services Geo-dependency yes Keyword
Ahrefs has no statistics about it. True, the links have nothing to do with the niche of the competitor's services at all. One-page without sensible optimized texts. If you look at the organics in Ahrefs, he doesn’t see anything at all on the keys being sold. The month of June, the competitor dangles on the 1st page in the issue in the 10th place. From time to time there is a rotation back and forth. The month of July, the competitor apparently freaked out and on July 16, the seo master put down 1500 nofollow links. Harshly and in one fell swoop. The links are all like this:


August - Ahrefs sees the site like this:

Well, Ahrefs took away his parrots only 2 months after the link explosion. As for Google - at the end of August, he raised the site to the top 3, sometimes giving it the first (depending on which keys to look at and the region). This week the site is rotated no lower than the top 5.
The number of URLs with links in the end:

The number of different domains for different anchors (they were still not used the most commercial ones ...)

Total - a couple of thousand links from garbage sites where you can post without registration. It looks like DLE posting or whatever it is.
During the link boom, the competitor turned on Google Adwords 3 times - apparently so that Google would not notice anything;)
The story doesn't seem to have a moral. The question remains - where are all the animals, a panda with a penguin in an embrace with filters?

Answer 1

The story doesn't seem to have a moral. The question remains - where are all the animals, a panda with a penguin in an embrace with filters?

And she won't. Some sites are still running directories for 10k links and nothing, they live just fine.
Try to convey this information directly to the PS. Write that you noticed this and demand pessimization of the site in the search results or filter.
Waiting until Google itself notices something is useless.
Good luck.

Answer 2

Alexander, I just wouldn’t risk trying this with my site: the chances are 50/50, if not less. For the sake of experiment, you can take the left domain and drive it away, but again - time and investment ..