I’m Don Mazonas, an SEO specialist, entrepreneur, traveller, gamer, and someone who has always preferred building life on my own terms.
SEO has been a major part of my journey for years. What started as an interest in understanding how websites rank eventually became something much bigger — building websites, experimenting with search strategies, working with businesses around the world, and creating an ever-growing portfolio of online projects.
I particularly enjoy working in industries that aren’t always straightforward to market. Competitive markets, unusual niches, advertising restrictions and difficult search results make SEO more interesting to me. I like figuring out how things work, testing ideas and finding opportunities that others might overlook.
My approach has always been practical. I would rather build something, test it and learn from the results than spend endless amounts of time discussing theory. Some ideas work incredibly well. Others fail spectacularly. Both are useful.
That mentality extends far beyond SEO.
More Than SEO
DonMazonas.com isn’t intended to be a faceless corporate website.
It’s my home on the internet.
Business is a huge part of my life, but I don’t believe life should revolve entirely around sitting behind a laptop. One of the reasons I became an entrepreneur in the first place was to create the freedom to experience more of the world.
Travel is a major part of that.
I love visiting new countries, exploring cities, discovering architecture, wandering through nature and finding places I probably wouldn’t have encountered if I’d followed the conventional tourist itinerary. Sometimes that means standing in front of something famous. Other times, it’s an interesting building, landscape, street or completely unexpected place that catches my attention.
Photography naturally became part of those adventures. I enjoy documenting where I’ve been and creating a visual record of the experiences along the way.
Building Things
I’ve always enjoyed creating.
Websites are part of that, but my ambitions extend much further. I’m fascinated by business, technology, entertainment and the process of taking something that exists only as an idea and gradually turning it into something real.
I’m constantly experimenting with new projects and thinking about what I can build next.
I don’t expect every project to succeed. That’s part of the fun.
I’d rather try ten things, discover that six were terrible ideas and learn from them than spend years wondering whether one idea might have worked.
Life Outside Business
When the laptop closes, there is an entirely different side of my life.
I’m a gamer and love getting completely absorbed in virtual worlds, whether I’m chasing achievements, exploring enormous open worlds or spending far too many hours completing something simply because I’ve decided it needs to be completed.
I’m also a dancer. Swing dancing has taken me to events, communities and experiences that I probably never would have discovered otherwise.
Then there’s walking, exploring, travelling and occasionally doing absolutely nothing productive whatsoever.
I think all of those things matter.
Success means very little to me if there isn’t enough time left to actually enjoy it.
What This Website Is About
DonMazonas.com is ultimately a collection of everything I’m building, learning and experiencing.
You’ll find business and SEO here because that’s what I do.
You’ll find travel because I want to see the world.
You’ll find gaming because sometimes spending an entire evening chasing one ridiculous achievement is exactly how I want to spend it.
And you’ll find thoughts, experiments, successes, failures and whatever else becomes part of the journey.
There isn’t a carefully manufactured corporate personality behind this website.
It’s simply me.
I’m Don Mazonas. I build things, explore the world, play games, dance, experiment, occasionally fuck things up, learn from it, and then build something else.
