Damon Burton
Smart SEO & Internet Marketing Blog
Driving the R8 Always Seems for a Reason
Drove the R8 taking my kid to a soccer training today. Always seems to be for a reason. On the way home we were stopped at a train track. I could see a lady hop out of the driver seat in the car behind me. Couldn’t really read the expressions on her face though. My...
AI Websites and the Liability Nobody Talks About
AI is transforming how businesses build on the web. That's exactly why a few numbers I'm about to share will surprise you, and not in a good way… AI-generated code now carries 2.7× the vkulnerability over human-written code, and by mid-2025, it was generating more...
$10,000 bet on Google
I posted a $10,000 bet nearly 2 years ago that in 5 years Google would still be the most used search engine. Everyone jumped on the "Google is dead" hype train when ChatGPT launched. 🥱 But here's why I'm right and everyone else is wrong... Google owns the index, the...
The True Cost of “Saving” with AI Built Websites
There is going to be an astronomical business opportunity for professionals in upcoming years to clean up AI created messes. Because the amount of people migrating blindly to AI-built websites because it's "easy and cheap" is just getting started. I get it for...
Is SEO Less Important Today?
Not at all. SEO is important than ever. Just bro-marketers pitching shiny objects. AI optimization is just SEO fundamentals. So AI didn't kill SEO. It gave it an infinite life span. Outside of our bubbles of entrepreneurship, AI adoption is statistically...
Redemption Arc Loading…
I never wanted to grow at the expense of my sanity, so I’ve always been comfortable taking it slow. Two years ago was one of the very few, yet biggest hits. Countless health problems. (Many still dealing with, including tinnitus in both ears, but a level 10 in my left...
Truth > Guessing = Respect
This week I realized a big difference between me and other marketers. And I think it’s one of the key contributing factors to my success over others. I don’t guess. I don’t pretend to have a crystal ball. I don’t stake claim in future definitions. I test. I prove. I...
AI website builders
Shout out to all the AI website builders selling sites for pennies on the dollar. Yes, the little guys are taking away marketshare from other little guys. But you're not taking away marketshare from the $10,000+ custom WordPress websites. You're building demand. The...
AI Website Designs
Just executed a new design client's mockups start to finish in Claude. Been experimenting and reverse engineering our design processes into Claude the last few weeks. But this design we did entirely in Claude. And the client ALL CAPS "LOVE these designs." We record...
