$ cat Changelog & Review Status

Editorial revision and build dates are separate. This tracker covers every page; it does not claim that every source, price or outcome was independently verified.

v9.4 · September 28, 2026 · Link Juice Simulator & Spintax Machine

• Added the Spintax Machine: a sentence is expanded into spintax from a small built-in thesaurus, 50 versions are spun on an animated slot machine, and four duplicate checks (exact match, word 3-gram overlap, sentence skeleton, synonym-normalised) run on the output with a 50×50 similarity heatmap. Runs entirely in the browser and sends nothing anywhere; the checks are illustrative, not a description of Google's systems.
• Added an interactive PageRank sandbox: pages as nodes, links as pipes, and link equity shown as particles that flow along follow links, evaporate on nofollow links and stop on devalued links.
• Seven scenarios (natural web, PBN, link wheel, nofollow sculpting, link farm, parasite page, sandbox) with briefings linked to the matching chapters, plus tools to add, link, nofollow and delete nodes.
• A footprint sweep flags nodes whose simulated footprints cross a threshold and devalues their outbound links; a model toggle compares pre-2009 and current nofollow handling.
• Labeled as a teaching model using classic PageRank (d=0.85). It makes no network requests and does not predict real rankings. Available in the multi-page and portable editions.

v9.3 · September 27, 2026 · Black Hat Oracle

• Added a domain form, animated terminal analysis, and three linked strategy recommendations selected from eight archive topics.
• The boot sequence starts after pressing Analyze. Linux-style reports include ASCII illustrations for each strategy.
• The Oracle is a labeled simulated environment. It makes no domain requests, uses no paid APIs, and does not measure rankings, backlinks, traffic, or penalties.
• Includes a cancel control, reduced-motion support, repeat runs, a scan transcript, and a downloadable text report. Available in the multi-page and portable editions.

v9.2 · 2026-09-19 · Restricted-verticals integration

• Added a Restricted Verticals hub plus three chapters (illegal/gray pharma, adult/XXX, alcohol/DTC) built to the standard technique template, documenting how channel-excluded industries pursue organic traffic and how each is detected and defended against.
• Pharma chapter is Tier C: mechanism, incident analysis and defensive detection only, no exploit; it leans on the leaked-ledger economics (Click Trajectories, PharmaLeaks) and the payment-chokepoint finding.
• Added six structured case records (GlavMed/SpamIt, RX-Promotion, hacklink market, 2025 SEO-poisoning campaign, adult data-PR, MA DTC compliance sweep), taking the case database to 24 records.
• Added glossary terms (partnerka, pharma hack, hacklink, age-gate cloaking, traffic trading, payment chokepoint) and timeline rows (2010 SpamIt closure, 2011 value-chain study, 2025 poisoning campaign).
• Cross-linked the new chapters from overview, start-here, seo-poisoning, parasite-seo, ai-geo, local-seo and detection. No live deployment.

v9.1 · 2026-09-19 · Audit corrections integrated

• Corrected current policy and legal wording, source mismatches, tool identities and unsupported performance statistics.
• Separated unexecuted external studies from reproducible synthetic local demonstrations; included fixtures and actual local outputs.
• Rebuilt search snippets from final section positions, rewrote bundle links and namespaced IDs, and removed unresolved template variables.
• Repaired tool-filter focus, shifted keyboard shortcuts, dialog labels/focus handling, sort controls and dim-text contrast.
• Replaced build-generated verification dates with explicit editorial and research dates. Counts distinguish records, reference entries, local demonstrations and proposed studies.

Completion pass · September 17, 2026

• Added a completed 45-query archive-search evaluation with frozen inputs, protocol, hashes, reproducible code and captured results. This evaluates the local archive, not Google or an AI service.
• Preserved five raw schema model files and traced seven selected names/strings to the pinned package version, line and hash. A documentation field does not establish production use.
• Expanded technique walkthroughs and evidence limits; added five named cases for 24 structured records and a dated four-page public offer snapshot.
• Published 48 product review records and a source-access manifest. Unsupported fields remain explicitly unverified.
• Repaired desktop and mobile overflow, link identification, text layering and remaining contrast issues. All 32 HTML pages were checked at four viewport widths; automated accessibility checks cover both themes. These checks do not certify assistive-technology compatibility.
• Corrected the canonical route from the publisher’s public archive link and supplied a local social image. No deployment was performed.

v9 · September 2026 · Archive expansion

The previous edition introduced the modern technique and reference chapters. Its claims of full verification, complete labs and thesis readiness were not substantiated by the audit and are withdrawn. Historical content is retained where it can be qualified or sourced.

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Remaining research and validation

No live Google ranking or AI-search experiment has been completed. Historical cases and product fields marked unresolved still require corroboration. Publication quality should be assessed against the actual source records and measured demonstrations. Chromium layout and keyboard checks and automated accessibility checks are complete within their recorded scope. Manual screen-reader evaluation and validation of a future deployment remain outstanding.