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Get to Know Mickey Mellen
Mickey has spent the last two decades in the digital world, starting as a WordPress developer in 2004 and building hundreds of websites throughout his career. He formed GreenMellen in 2009 with co-owner Ali Green, a digital marketing agency that creates packages of intentional, scalable, and measurable digital marketing solutions that generate long-term results.
As a frequent speaker and sharer of knowledge, Mickey has also led the Atlanta-based A Brighter Web meetup since 2012. He blogs daily on this site, hosts the Stacking Knowledge podcast, and co-hosts the Brighter Web podcast with Robert Carnes.
Mickey lives in Marietta with his wife, Kelly, and their two daughters.
Recent Posts
Google AI Overviews are devouring search traffic
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs Google continues to push their “AI Overviews” (the AI snippets at the top of search results), we’re seeing a greater and greater decrease in…
The Sunday Summary: Problematic screenshots, avoiding website traffic, Nexus, and Readwise
Reading Time: 3 minutesHere’s a bit about what I wrote, read and learned over the past week. I hope you find it helpful! Blog posts from the past…
The JFK conspiracy theory is comforting
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve long struggled to understand why some people cling so tightly to conspiracy theories around things like 9/11 or the COVID vaccine, but I recently…
Deletion is a gift
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’re going to be providing information to someone else, whether it’s a speech, a meeting, or a presentation, one of the best gifts you…
Optimizing for website traffic is dumb
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt can be tempting to try to optimize your website to get more traffic, because with all things being the same, more traffic will lead…
Edit before you record
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’ve listened to any episodes of my Stacking Knowledge podcast, you probably noticed that they’re quite raw as I intentionally do very little editing…
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