Welcome to the personal website of Cecil Helton
Howdy!
I’m Cecil, an accomplished digital marketer and website creator from Somerset, Kentucky. I have spent my career creating compelling user experiences online, and those customer experiences convert.
You can learn more about me here and what I’ve done in the past. I haven’t fired up the blog on this version of my website, but that may change in short order.
I certainly won’t be writing about auto insurance (since I spent two plus years doing that already), which means I’ve likely jinxed myself and will have to write something on that topic in the future.
My real interests, outside of user experiences, are search engine optimization (SEO), generative engine optimization (GEO), agentic engine optimization (AEO) as well as local SEO and marketing. And I see too many sites who are using artificial intelligence to not only do their SEO/GEO work, but even to wholly design their websites. My experience says those sites aren’t going to do well in any SEO measuring stick, although I guarantee they’ll have all the possible JSON-LD schema, so there is that.
What about Other Things and Stuff?
I’m a child of the 1970s and 1980s, so you may have a good idea about some my interests if you’re familiar with what dorks such as myself liked back then…
Commodore Amiga
The Amiga was my 2nd computer. It remains 1st in my heart
I started with an Atari 400 at age 12. And got an Amiga at 17. I still have the Atari, btw. And still love playing with games on the Amiga 40 years later, too.
The Commodore Amiga revolutionized multimedia. It delivered vibrant, real-time arcade graphics with up to 4,096 colors, advanced scrolling and hardware sprites.
A 4-channel stereo sound sampler produced rich, digitized music that far outperformed PCs of the era.
Needless to say, the computer was the perfect gaming platform in the 1980s – and you can play thousands of those games today using the Amiga Game Selector, which you can download here.
My Dog Willie
Meet Willie. I am pretty fond of this mutt
I adopted Willie from the Knox-Whitley Humane Society back in 2023.
I went to get a different dog – and was charged with bringing home a: female that was on the smaller side (20 pounds or less). I came home with a dog closer to 80 pounds that was male.
He was awesome then. And yes, he is obviously just as awesome now. DNA testing was a must, though. So you should say “hi” to him. He loves people.
Learn more about why Willie dog is so awesome – because he’s an extremely interesting mix of various bits and pieces. Or as I like to refer to him, an “all American dog.”
Other Vintage Games – Arcade
I spent a lot of money as a kid. And all of it a quarter at a time
After busting on the scene in the 1970s, video games quickly became a part of my life upon our introduction. From classics such as Pong, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Galaga and Ms. PacMan and beyond, I’ve invested more than my fair share of funds to the arcade industry.
Needless to say, I’m still quite fond of arcade games from the 1970s and 1980s – and play them regularly using MAME or directly on my Amiga, since Galaga, Ms. PacMan and Phoenix are now native there thanks to Amiga Game Selector.
I’ll eventually feature my own content here, but for now, I’ll just offer you up the Arcade Blogger.