Damon Burton
Smart SEO & Internet Marketing Blog
SEO Increase After Changing Domain
Client left, then came back. This client canceled about a year ago. This one wasn't a new sheriff, or random cancel. The client just wanted a change of pace. He decided to "retire" from his landscaping business. Wanted to try a 9-5 job. After working for someone else...
First (Formal) AI Optimization Lead
Last year I posted about acquiring a domain to launch a sister optimization agency, Optimized Artificial Intelligence. Few months ago I announced launching the site and beginning to optimize for it. Few weeks ago I posted a screenshot of it skyrocketing in the...
Custom SEO Awards
The custom awards for those that successfully pass my Certified SEO program are awesome. They're 18" custom laser engraved steel awards, and the students have been digging them. Wanted to take the same approach and start gamifying and showing agency clients...
2025’s been amazing
This year's been great. Was going to write a massive post about all the cool things, but there were so many that it would take me, legit, a full day to type it all out. So here's a bulleted list of some that are top of mind: Celebrated 19 years married Spend 3 weeks...
Excited for New Entrepreneurs
I get excited when I see someone bet on themselves. Any time there's a shop I go to that I found out is a new business, I send go back after buying and bring them a copy of my SEO book and a little "thank you" package to support them. I've done this with a new:...
Love Loving Her
I love the joy that my wife gets out of doing the things that she loves. One of those things is organizing birthday parties for our kids and holiday parties for our families. Our kids birthday parties are world famous by their friends so we always have amazing...
Why I Speak on SEO Often for Free
$600,000 website proposal going out today. And that's why I help others for free. I help others for a few reasons: Feels good There's always a wildcard payout later I talk a lot about helping others without expecting in return. But what does that mean? Too many...
Never easy saying goodbye to someone you love.
Especially after being in my life daily for 18 years. With love and heavy heart, sad to announce to the world that SEO died. It’s died every year over those nearly two decades, now dying seemingly faster by the week. But somehow, SEO just shows up the next day...
World’s Longest SEO Client?
Sad, yet amazing day. My longest client ever just canceled at 18 years and 4 months. August 12, 2007 was their first invoice for $4.95. $2,368/month for the last half dozen years. We watched them grow from a small ~5,000 sq ft facility to multiple ~50,000 sq ft...
