Damon Burton
Smart SEO & Internet Marketing Blog
Don’t Pause SEO, Even if You’re #1
Let’s say you decide to up your marathon game. You stretch and strengthen. You do tempo runs, hill repeats, intervals, and long runs. You run your first race and crush it. Then you stop. You can guess what happens next. Without consistent training, your muscles...
Agency Revenue Levels
Agency friends, if your revenue is stuck here is why for levels from $10k-$100k/month… Stuck at less than $10k/month? Visibility is your problem. Get in front of more people. Less than $25k? Opportunity to improve your processes. Less than $50k? Delegate more. Less...
Should I Hire an In-House SEO?
“Morning, Damon. I tried doing what I thought was smart and [hired] an in-house marketing guy, and it turns out that was a terrible idea. We ended up letting him leave with your book, so he doesn’t screw up the next person’s site.” I received this message from a...
Full Page Google Results
Want a big, sexy full page spread like this on Google for your name or business? It's called Knowledge Graph. There are some tactical things you do in how you structure your website, like schema, but after that it's about perceived credibility. Get other...
Fast Love, Fast Adventures?
The older I get and the longer Hottie and I have been together (20 years), the more I love her and the more passionate we are. Been thinking why we are so happy when relationships are so hard to succeed in general society. Society tells you to find love through wild...
Living Inspiring Others
It's okay to want. It's okay to do better. It's okay to enjoy nice things. It's okay to share those nice things to inspire others. The place you came from doesn't have to be the place you remain.
HARO Discontinuing
Told my team to stop using HARO a long time ago. Looks like I made the right call, because they just announced it's shutting down. As marketers like to do, it became abused. HARO's intent of journalism was overtaken by marketers. The nail in the coffin was AI content...
Smartest in the Room
They say that if you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room. I get it. But I also think there’s a lot of personal reward in the privilege of helping others. Yesterday, I tried a new mastermind. I wasn’t the smartest in the room, but I had the...
Want Success? Just Show Up.
Want to be successful? Just show up. No joke. The world is in the palm of your hands if you just a ) set expectations and b ) show up and deliver them... even at the most basic level. 1 - Had a young entrepreneur ask if I'd be a guest on his podcast. I always like...
