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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.

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The Google search experience just shifted dramatically

May 22, 2026

Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier this week, Google made a change to the search box on their website that is likely to cause huge ripples across the web. Google…

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How to Take Smart Notes, by Sonke Ahrens

May 21, 2026

Reading Time: 2 minutesNow that I’m using Reading Refresh to keep myself up to date on books I’ve read in the past, I thought I’d share some of…

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The invisible leaps

May 20, 2026

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA lot of creativity is about taking things that have come before us, combining them with something else, and creating something slightly better. There’s nothing…

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Think Again, by Adam Grant

May 19, 2026

Reading Time: 3 minutesNow that I’m using Reading Refresh to keep myself up to date on books I’ve read in the past, I thought I’d share some of…

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Schema markup may not be very useful

May 18, 2026

Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve had my concerns about the effectiveness of schema markup on websites, and a recent study from Ahrefs tends to agree with that idea. Schema…

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The Sunday Summary: Non-human drivers, the state of search, worthless schema, and Google Chrome

May 17, 2026

Reading Time: 2 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…

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