Damon Burton
Smart SEO & Internet Marketing Blog
Best Generation
I think my generation, those born in the first years of the 80's, is cool as shit. We're old enough to be considered Generation X by some, but young enough to (inappropriately) be mistaken for a Millennial. 😆 We're lost somewhere in between generations. Old enough to...
Big SEO Company
This is wild. Not sure when, if ever, it will make sense in my head having an SEO operation this big. Started nearly two decades ago, by myself in a spare bedroom. No formal experience. No partners. No funding. Just an interest in websites, and a curiosity for search...
SEO isn’t dead. Others just suck at it.
New client is up 262% in just 6 months. That's 1,500 extra, QUALIFIED visitors per month (+50 per day). Every time I post traffic screenshots, there's some Karen that thinks everything is a scam and comments, "bUt Wut aBouT dOllarz." Duh. Of course sales numbers...
Winners Lose More Than Losers
I win a lot. I lose more. The orange arrow below, pointing to the number 672, is the number of proposals that I've sent over the years and didn't win. Winners win more because they're willing to lose more. Stop being afraid to lose so that you can start...
How to tell someone’s true character
If you want to know the true character of someone, look less to them and more to those around them. What company do they keep? Does their spouse hold a glow in their eye for them? And them to their spouse in return? Are their kids respectful? Because children don't...
Yesterday, I checked out.
I do things with my kids all the time. But I often get almost anxious to get back. I always have so much to do. When I'm not working or hanging out with the kids, I'm working on something. I don't watch TV, unless it's shows with my kids. I don't watch movies, unless...
The older I get, the more I realize I don’t know who I am.
I remember driving to my cabin during the winter a few years ago. It's a two hour drive, and I was driving at 5 in the morning. About half way there is a beautiful canyon with a river. Some dude was there, fly fishing. It was freezing. Dumb cold. I start thinking how...
“Regular” is Inspiring
I'm just a regular guy typing on a regular keyboard. A keyboard behind a regular chair. A chair in a regular office. An office in a regular house. But I get messages like this weekly, because “regular” is what you make it. I share my life, and document the journey. I...
The writing is on the wall. Paid ads are dying. ☠️
Platforms are removing cookies. Attributions are being removed. Costs are out of control. Just the other day I posted how Washington state recently made paid ads effectively illegal in the health care industry, by defining as little as logging IPs or using anonymized...
