Damon Burton

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Utah Web Design Office Landscaping Done

Utah Web Design Office Landscaping Done

The commercial investment for our Utah web design company office now has grass. It was an out of control jungle when I bought it. Here are some old pics from Google Maps or I took during landscaping demolishing. Weeds, black metal fence, mixed with white wood fence,...

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Helping Others Without Expecting in Return

Helping Others Without Expecting in Return

I've always helped people without expecting anything back.  Looking back, I wouldn't have expected in those moments how much that habit shaped my life and my business. Here are some of my favorite examples... In 2004 I helped the neighbor's daughter sell some car...

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My SEO Book Impacting Lives is the Best Feeling

My SEO Book Impacting Lives is the Best Feeling

Made a random post about others messaging me they just picked up my book and are reading it. Then I get a reply that says, "Outrank, as first-hand account, many SEO's started from there, including me. Thx Damon Burton." Do you know how amazing that feels?  To know...

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Full Circle Designing RSL’s America First Field website

Full Circle Designing RSL’s America First Field website

About 20 years ago I worked in this office doing web design for a guy.  I watched them tear down acres of trailer park to build the RSL soccer stadium. You can see in the picture me pointing to the office I was in, and the stadium flag waving between the building and...

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How to successfully change domains during a rebrand

How to successfully change domains during a rebrand

Rebranded my AI optimization sister agency and it's gaining a good monopoly on traditional search engines. Scored the domain OptimizedArtificialIntelligence.com about two years ago. Started optimizing it about a year ago.  Was getting good page 1's, and starting to...

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Optimize Live trademark

Optimize Live trademark

Another successful trademark, Optimize Live. Optimize Live was my live SEO training. Went well, and looking to do it again this year so been protecting that branding and the trademark was approved this week. The more I accomplish, the more events, the more goods I put...

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AI Optimization “Expert” Delusion

AI Optimization “Expert” Delusion

AI is creating arrogance and false confidence from delusions of "experience." 3 "marketing experts,” a whole 60 days into their resume, claiming AI made the perfect websites for them. They tell me all about their amazing, special prompting. Yet, every time their...

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How to Show Up in AI

How to Show Up in AI

Just dropped 20 minutes of unscripted gold at Russell Brunson’s Inner Circle mastermind on how to show up in AI in 3 steps… Building a well-structured website Creating unique human-written content Establishing external credibility through public relations AI is just...

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“GEO promises an end to SEO”

“GEO promises an end to SEO”

Just had a nutjob tell me "GEO promises an end to SEO." Errr... where do you think AI gets its results from, and where GEO inherited 2/3 of it's name from? He went on to impress me with: "Email is dead" Uh, some of the biggest companies in the world do ONLY email. One...

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