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BigTech Reseller IBM Exposure Campaign ... 18-Property Tracking

An open Digital Karma Data Warehouse tracking entry for the 18-property BigTech Reseller IBM Exposure Campaign. The September 3 checkpoint records a synchronized 85.8 percent Google impression loss across the AS400System.com family immediately after the August 2026 spam update, alongside continued indexing and crawler activity. The architecture remains in place and the campaign is still growing.

Evidence Checkpoint 1, trailing 30 days through 2026-08-21: 81,615 impressions and 268 clicks across the 18 campaign properties. The original bot total was incomplete because the warehouse had not yet discovered cPanel's direct subdomain log filenames. That pipeline gap was fixed August 24 and the AS400System logs were backfilled. Checkpoint 2, update comparison: - AS400System.com family impressions: 9,278 before, 1,322 after, down 85.8 percent - AS400System.com family clicks: 60 before, 1 after, down 98.3 percent - Root impressions: 5,300 before, 1,057 after, down 80.1 percent - Root average position: 50.5 before, 66.4 after - Root pages receiving impressions: 117 before, 48 after - Established subdomain losses: 83.2 to 97.9 percent - Googlebot requests: 938 before, 984 after, up 4.9 percent - Search Console indexed pages as of August 27: 683 - Manual actions: none - Security issues: none - Googlebot 5xx responses after the drop: none Control properties during the same week: AS400Software.com rose 5.2 percent, AS400IBMSystems.com rose 4.8 percent, and AS400IBMSystem.com rose 282 percent. The demand did not disappear across the subject. The loss was isolated to the AS400System.com family.
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The AI-Ready Healthcare Infrastructure Campaign: Connecting Clinical AI to the Hardware Underneath It

IBM was baking AI into Power hardware and IBM i tooling at the same time healthcare AI properties in the portfolio had no way to talk about the infrastructure, data locality, and governance …

Proof Point The correction was the interesting part, not the initial build.

The BestLocalX Authority Campaign for Florida On Appeal

Florida On Appeal, a Wix legal site for a friend's appellate practice, needed authority support without touching legal intake, since paid legal leads and referral routing can trigger Florida…

Proof Point The marine-services cluster validated the approach before the legal site ever touched it: an independent research layer,…

The BigTech Reseller IBM Exposure Campaign: Eighteen Doors Into the Same Building

The BigTech Reseller IBM Exposure Campaign is the Project Everywhere thesis applied to one vertical: 17 AS400-family properties plus BigTechReseller.com, each with a distinct role. On August…

Proof Point The AS400System.com family went from 9,278 weekly impressions and 60 clicks before the update to 1,322 impressions and 1…
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