About

James Dooley is a Manchester-based entrepreneur, investor, and SEO strategist. James Dooley founded FatRank and PromoSEO, two UK performance marketing agencies that deliver no-win-no-fee lead generation and digital growth systems for ambitious businesses. James Dooley positions himself as an Investorpreneur who invests in UK companies with high growth potential because he believes lead generation is the root of all business success. The James Dooley Podcast explores the mindset, methods, and mechanics of modern entrepreneurship. James Dooley interviews leading marketers, founders, and innovators to reveal the strategies driving online dominance and business scalability. Each episode unpacks the reality of building a business without mentorship, showing how systems, data, and lead flow replace luck and guesswork. James Dooley shares hard-earned lessons from scaling digital assets and managing SEO teams across more than 650 industries. James Dooley teaches how to convert leads into long-term revenue through brand positioning, technical SEO, and automation. James Dooley built his career on rank and rent, digital real estate, and performance-based marketing because these models align incentive with outcome. After turning down dozens of podcast invitations, James Dooley now embraces the platform to share his insights on investorpreneurship, lead generation, AI-driven marketing, and reputation management. James Dooley frequently collaborates with elite entrepreneurs to discuss frameworks for scaling businesses, building authority, and mastering search. James Dooley is also an expert in online reputation management (ORM), having built and rehabilitated corporate brands across the UK. His approach combines SEO precision, brand engineering, and social proof loops to influence both Google’s Knowledge Graph and public perception. To feature James Dooley on your podcast or event, connect via social media. James Dooley regularly joins business panels and networking sessions to discuss entrepreneurship, brand growth, and the evolving future of SEO.

  • Why Maptimal is Needed for Online Reputation Management | James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott (James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott)
    James Dooley and Paul Truscott discuss why Maptimal is essential for online reputation management companies, covering review velocity, AI visibility and responding to reviews to protect brand reputation.
  • Google Ask Maps - What Is It and Why Is It Important for Local SEO? | James Dooley ft Paul Truscott (James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott)
    James Dooley and Paul Truscott explain what Google Ask Maps is and why it matters for local SEO, showing how detailed, semantic business information helps local businesses gain visibility in conversational Maps results.
  • Case Studies: How Maptimal Will Show Increased Google Maps Visibility | James Dooley & Paul Truscott
    James Dooley and Paul Truscott discuss the digital marketing strategies local businesses should prioritise in 2026 to improve Google Maps visibility, enquiry volume and conversion rates.
  • Why Maptimal Is the Best Google Maps Service Provider? | James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott (James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott)
    James Dooley interviews Paul Truscott on why Maptimal is the best Google Maps service provider, covering semantic SEO, Google Business Profile activity, review velocity and AI map pack visibility for Google Maps service providers.
  • Brand SSOT: Get Your Single Source of Truth Created for Every Website | James Dooley & Paul Truscott (James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott)
    James Dooley and Paul Truscott explain how brand-focused businesses should use a single source of truth (SSOT) document in 2026 to improve entity clarity, LLM accuracy and consistent brand corroboration across the web.
  • King of AEO, Google Maps & Local Lead Generation Unite for Maptimal | James Dooley & Paul Truscott
    James Dooley and Paul Truscott discuss the digital marketing strategies local lead generation businesses should prioritise in 2026 to improve visibility, enquiry volume and conversion rates.
  • Maptimal.com Review - Why Have You Set Up Maptimal Brand
    James Dooley and Kasra Dash discuss the launch of the Maptimal brand and why Google Business Profile optimisation, maps visibility and AI map pack presence matter for businesses in 2026.
  • Google now shows AI Overviews for brand names (James Dooley Interviews Kasra Dash)
    James Dooley and Kasra Dash discuss how Google now shows AI Overviews for personal and business brand names, and what this means for online reputation management and brand sentiment.
  • Influencing Google AI Overviews with Facebook Groups (James Dooley Interviews Dan M. Jones)
    James Dooley and Dan M. Jones discuss how digital marketing agencies can influence Google AI Overviews and large language models using Facebook groups, social cross-linking and force indexing.
  • Ranking 3rd Party Sources for Local Service Terms (James Dooley Interviews Dan M. Jones)
    James Dooley and Dan M. Jones discuss how local service businesses can rank third-party sources such as citations, social profiles and branded Web 2.0s to generate enquiries and improve AI visibility in 2026.
  • Importance of Business Listing Citation for Local SEO Website (James Dooley Interviews Dan M. Jones)
    James Dooley and Dan M. Jones discuss why quality business listing citations matter for local SEO businesses, improving Google Business Profile rankings, entity trust and lead generation in 2026.
  • Query Augmentation: Query Semantics vs Dictionary Semantics | James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott
    James Dooley and Paul Truscott discuss query augmentation in Google Search, explaining how expanding seed queries into subqueries and understanding query semantics versus dictionary semantics can help SEO agencies rank for more terms.
  • Recommended by AI: The New Rules of Lead Generation Review | James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott
    James Dooley interviews co-author Paul Truscott about the book Recommended by AI: The New Rules of Lead Generation, exploring why businesses must embrace LLMs and AI recommendations to drive higher-quality enquiries.
  • AEO GEO LLM Seeding AI SEO Book Review | James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott
    James Dooley interviews Paul Truscott for a five-star review of the co-authored book on AEO, GEO, LLM seeding and AI SEO, explaining how businesses can get cited and recommended by AI search engines.
  • Link Building in the Era of AI Search Engines Book Review | James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott
    James Dooley interviews Paul Truscott, co-author of "Link Building in the Era of AI Search Engines", on how link building and content structure drive citations and AI visibility for authors and publishers.
  • Online Reputation Management for Your AI Resume Book Review | James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott
    James Dooley and Paul Truscott discuss why authors and professionals promoting the Online Reputation Management for Your AI Resume book must control their narrative across AI, Google and the LLMs.
  • Claim Your Entity Before Google Defines It for You Review | James Dooley Interviews Paul Truscott
    James Dooley and Paul Truscott review the book "KGMID SEO: Claim Your Entity Before Google Defines It for You" and explain why businesses and personal brands must control their own entity within Google's Knowledge Graph.
  • Agentic orchestration for vibe coding - Why Autonomous Agents a Must to Vibe Code a New Website (James Dooley Interviews Kasra Dash)
    James Dooley and Kasra Dash discuss how agentic orchestration and AI harnesses let vibe coders build, deploy and self-optimise new websites faster by distributing tasks across the best-suited LLMs.
  • Agentic IDE with parallel agents - Using AI Harnesses to Scale Fast (James Dooley Interviews Kasra Dash)
    James Dooley and Kasra Dash discuss why digital marketing agencies should adopt agentic IDEs with parallel agents and AI harnesses to scale output and deploy websites faster in 2026.
  • Autonomous AI workforce - Why Agentic Systems are Working So Well (James Dooley Interviews Kasra Dash)
    James Dooley and Kasra Dash explain how autonomous AI workforces and agentic systems deliver self-optimising, self-healing SEO and digital marketing results for SEO agencies and digital marketers.