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SEO,
hacked open.

The forensic teardown of every page that ranks. Plays, receipts, and the hat-color verdict — so you can run them with craft, and recognize them being run on you.

Paste any URL — get the plays, the hat color, the 0–10 score. Nothing stored.

We've got receipts // just one glance
SERP screenshot with featured snippet circled
RECEIPT_01 — SERP_DOMINATION.PNG
Hockey-stick organic traffic chart
RECEIPT_02 — TRAFFIC_412PCT.SVG
Backlink network graph with PBN cluster
RECEIPT_03 — PBN_CLUSTER.PNG
Site silo architecture diagram
RECEIPT_04 — SILO_STRUCTURE.PNG
Google AI Overview citation
RECEIPT_05 — AI_OVERVIEW_CITED.PNG
JSON-LD schema snippet
RECEIPT_06 — SCHEMA_STACK.JSON

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Grey Hat
6.2
Deviance Score
SaaS / DevTools

The Programmatic SEO Land Grab

How a directory site spun 40,000 pages from a single template and captured every long-tail comparison query in 90 days.

Grey Hat
6.8
Deviance Score
B2B SaaS

The AI Overview Hijack

How a niche B2B brand engineered its content to be cited by Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and ChatGPT — and tripled inbound demos.

Black Hat
8.4
Danger Score
Affiliate / E-comm

Reddit Parasite SEO in 2026

Riding the UGC tide to page one — how affiliates plant subtle product pitches inside high-ranking Reddit threads.

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marketing,hacked open.
The ad, landing page, and email version. 26+ teardowns.
Sister site
sales,hacked open.
Cold emails, discovery calls, demos, renewals — all annotated.
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