Author name: Mike SEO

For years, marketing has centered on reach. The more people a campaign could touch, the better. But times are changing. Today, brands are shifting their focus from speaking to the masses to speaking more directly to smaller, specific audiences. This shift toward micromarketing is gaining momentum and for good reason. More brands are recognizing that […]

Acquisition will enable HCLSoftware to accelerate Agentic Business Intelligence roadmap of customers by adding embedded analytics and pixel-perfect reporting capabilities to its Data & AI division HCLSoftware, the software business division of HCLTech, announced its intent to acquire Jaspersoft, a business unit of Cloud Software Group and provider of a leading embedded analytics and pixel-perfect reporting […]

AiPPT.com, a leading AI-powered presentation platform, announced the launch of its newly expanded template library, offering users an unprecedented selection of ready-to-use PowerPoint templates. The library provides a wide variety of designs across business, education, marketing, and creative projects, giving professionals, students, and content creators a fast and intuitive way to craft visually engaging presentations. […]

The company’s mobile-based system emphasizes local data processing and user-directed consent amid growing scrutiny of data practices. As concerns around data privacy and consumer trust continue to shape the technology landscape, mEinstein is positioning its platform around a privacy-by-design approach that prioritizes local data processing and explicit user consent. Public attention on data practices has intensified […]

The Michigan-based startup is launching a platform to help B2B marketing teams tie website activities to pipeline and revenue within their CRM. Marks the official launch of Formfilled, a new attribution solution designed to solve one of the most persistent problems for B2B marketing: tying website activity to pipeline and revenue within an organization’s CRM. […]

Domain strategy is one of those decisions that feels technical on the surface but has lasting consequences for brand equity, organic visibility, and revenue. In 2025, search engines are more sophisticated than ever, yet they remain deeply reliant on historical signals such as authority, trust, and link relationships. That makes domain and subdomain choices far…

A new dataset of 300K viral YouTube videos suggests that faces in thumbnails perform about the same as without them, with larger differences by niche.
The post Do Faces Help YouTube Thumbnails? Here’s What The Data Says appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Recently, I wrote about how my site was being attacked and how I finally migrated to Cloudflare to end the barrage of bot traffic. The bot traffic was also destroying performance on my site because it was hitting what appeared to be an infinite number of nonexistent URL paths, driving up queries of wildcard redirects…

AI is changing search, but traditional SEO still drives most traffic. Real-world data shows which tactics continue to perform.