Damon Burton
Smart SEO & Internet Marketing Blog
Other SEOs
There are shady marketers out there that hold things hostage, or revoke it if you leave them. Make sure you have your domain and hosting under your own logins. Picked up a new client a few months ago that has three businesses. He gave us the SEO contract on one of...
Cool Doesn’t Convert
New client came to us with a fancy new site. Looks cool. Performs painful, and caused them to lose millions in revenue. Page speed slowed and now takes 3x longer to load. Content wasn't migrated over, causing dozens of dead pages. Hundreds of redirects, creating poor...
Wake Up, Daydreamers
The unfortunate truth about success... Winning is a sport. Sharing your wins to inspire others is a responsibility. Whether people take action is up to them. Success isn't hard. It's just being willing to create momentum, then keep that momentum going. Last month I...
Congrats to Molokaʻi Burger on New Website
Ever heard of Molokaʻi island? Probably not. Because it's off the map a bit. But if you've seen it, it's paradise. Molokaʻi is in Hawaii, and is only 10 miles wide. We just launched a website for a second generation, family-owned burger joint, Molokaʻi Burger. There...
Entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.
Entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing. It's about way more than money. It's about passion. It's creativity. It's challenges. It's family. This 13 year old showed up at my door. He was selling hand made paintings. I couldn't be more proud of the kid I didn't even...
SEO Less Than a Year is a Waste of Your Money
I want to protect your investment. To put it simply, if you do SEO for anything less than 12 months, you’re just burning your money. So don't start. When you rank higher with SEO, you are giving your business its best chance to reach more of your targeted audience,...
How to Recover from a Google Penalty
A Google penalty could wipe out your online organic sales in the blink of an eye. But you can recover. Here's how. First, be proactive. Avoid a penalty to begin with. Don't cut corners and go with cheap SEO. Cheap is expensive. If penalized, you need to figure out...
Good SEO Copywriting
That's what's up, literally. Corporate client's organic traffic is up 99% this summer over last. They already had a decent site, so this increase was a content play. Dug into data on who their ideal buyer is, and used tools to identify what they're already searching...
Entrepreneur Hour 2024
Been building an online brand with my teenage son the last few months, but looks like there's a change of plans... Every other day he has part school/home release where I spend 60-90 minutes with him teaching him about business. Most of that time has been spent...
