Damon Burton
Smart SEO & Internet Marketing Blog
When someone asks “What did you do this summer?”
Me: "Not much." Also me: Took the family to: watch Paris play in World Cup Club game in Los Angeles RV'd through the Redwoods in California Flew whole family Delta One to: France Germany Italy Spain Greece Dubai Spoke about SEO on stage in: Mexico Vietnam Visited...
ChatGPT SEO Spam
It's funny watching ChatGPT repeat the same spam problems that search engines went through 20 years ago. Wouldn't expect anyone to get it right the first time, spammers are using ALL the old SEO hacks that have long since stopped working on Google, but ARE working on...
Best Parent Hack
I’ll tell you in retrospect one of the best things that I ever did as a parent was take my kids on one-on-one trips when they were young-young. My oldest is barely a teenager, but he's so grown already. We just did round and back to San Diego for 24 hours to hang out...
Offered $3,600 in commission for referral, and they turned it down.
Had a friend send me a referral for an SEO client. The call went well and I messaged him and said, "Thanks for the intro. I know you sent it not for money but because I’ll take care of them and deliver. But I also wanted to offer a referral commission." They wrote...
SEO Team Charity Donations
Every time we onboard a new SEO client the team takes turns rotating and donating to a cause that means something to them. One of our designers, Rob, chose to donate to a Filipino school for kids with autism. These pics make it one of my favorite donations I've seen...
Motivators for Success
I didn’t come to earn millions out of a pursuit for success. The opposite. Growing up in instability and violence, my driver was a passion to avoid instability and chaos. I didn’t have a a positive light house to guide me. So I flipped it as a light house of what to...
Who are you, really?
8 years ago I had a singular moment that onset a cascade of health problems that has caused me to live in daily pain. I'll go into details on that maybe in another post. Today, I want to talk about the positive side of a shitty situation. Though I'd never wish anyone...
SEO Isn’t Dying
SEO used to die every 2 months. Now it's every 2 minutes. It will never die, because people will never stop needing answers. It's like music. Record players died by cassette tapes. Cassettes died by CDs. CDs died by MP3s, etc. But music never died. SEO is music, as...
$100 Tip on $90 Ticket
Gave a server $100 cash tip on a $90 ticket yesterday that he screwed up on more than once. Forgot our daughter’s side, that I even repeated because I had a feeling he didn’t catch it. Forgot our son’s friend’s drink. Missed a request on my food allergy prep. But that...
