The archive

All teardowns

8 forensic breakdowns of pages that rank — what they do, why it works, and whether Google's still letting them get away with it.

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.

White Hat
1.4
Angel Score
Health / YMYL

The EEAT Author Page That Actually Moves Rankings

A YMYL publisher rebuilt every author page around verifiable expertise — and watched core update volatility flatten.

White Hat
2.0
Angel Score
Local Services

Schema Stacking on a Local Service Page

A 4-location plumber overtook national directories with disciplined LocalBusiness + Service + FAQ + Review stacking.

White Hat
1.8
Angel Score
B2B SaaS

The SaaS Glossary Play

How a category-creator SaaS owns the definitional queries — and converts at 4× their blog average.

Black Hat
9.0
Danger Score
Supplements / E-comm

The Expired Domain 301 Trick

A supplement brand acquired a defunct health blog with 15 years of backlinks and 301'd it into their money pages. Then Google noticed.

Grey Hat
5.4
Deviance Score
Affiliate / Reviews

The 'Best X for Y' Affiliate Funnel

The listicle anatomy that quietly mints $40k/month — and the seven tells that say it's pure affiliate, not editorial.