Damon Burton
Smart SEO & Internet Marketing Blog
Want to lose 50% of your website’s traffic and burn millions?
Updated April, 2023 As detrimental and unfortunate as an improper website migration can be, I didn't expect to see someone make it worse. We had been working with an SEO client for a few years. Quadrupled their traffic. Then they burned it down. 🔥 Web designers...
Seeing these on the wall make me smile
Not the awards. Those are cool, but... Forbes recognition is amazing, but... SEO National trademarks are great, but... It's my kids' scribbles. I don't know what I'm going to do when the whiteboard fills up? Save this one in the closet to keep their pictures forever...
Help Instead of Judging
This is Mike. He'd been looking for a chimney for a local co-op farm. I know nothing about farming, but he sent me a message. I bought a chimney kit two years ago for a small cabin project. When a professional came to fit the chimney, he said the kit wasn't...
Why so many people suck at SEO
One of the main reasons I see businesses suck at SEO... is because they're focusing too much on SEO. When interviewed for an article on Entrepreneur, I was asked about the connection between SEO and web design. My answer was simple. "Google puts themselves in the...
Circumstances are what you make of them
This weekend I had a six hour drive. Four hours later we weren’t even half way, countless wrecks were reported, including 5 cars we saw slid off ourselves. As the snow storm rolled in heavier, the visibility went from about one mile to 20 feet. I pulled off onto what...
Put my name on a thing.
What I love doing is also what pays my bills. But I also give a lot of free advice to those who ask. Marrying that passion for what I love with a willingness to help others landed me an opportunity in 2015 to be on Digital Media board of advisors at Davis Technical...
Don’t “Sell.” Educate.
I had a email from an lead asking for a proposal. I had to tell them no. I wrote them back saying I wouldn't provide a quote at this time, but would have a call with them to explain why, and give them ammunition to continue shopping SEO around. The problem was they...
💣 24 value bombs from my free SEO Facebook group
If you don't know by now, I have a free Facebook group where I drop SEO advice regularly. https://www.facebook.com/groups/outrank/ I've started recapping the posts throughout each month at the end. Here is a list of 24 value bombs from September, 2019. Screenshots...
Sent my wife flowers, and my son thanked me.
This month, my wife and I have been married for 13 years. We celebrated in Hawaii. Yes, we took the kids. They're our little buddies and we take them everywhere. We returned home last night and landed at 1am this morning and went to bed at about 2am. After 10 hours of...
