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.

  • Agentic AI Website Builders for Agencies: Replit, Lovable, Claude Code and Codex Compared (James Dooley Interviews Nathan Gotch)
    James Dooley and Nathan Gotch discuss which agentic AI website builders digital marketing agencies should use in 2026 to build, host and rank client sites faster than traditional WordPress setups.
  • Search Everywhere Optimisation: Best Strategies to Be Omnichannel with Nathan Gotch
    James Dooley and Nathan Gotch explain how e-commerce businesses can adopt Search Everywhere Optimisation to build brand visibility across traditional search engines, AI platforms, marketplaces and social video in 2026.
  • Increasing AI Visibility Using Advanced AEO Strategies (James Dooley Interviews Andy Chadwick)
    James Dooley and Andy Chadwick discuss the advanced AEO strategies businesses should use in 2026 to increase AI visibility, earn LLM citations and understand customer personas across search and social.
  • Using AI to Supercharge Your SEO: James Dooley Interviews Andy Chadwick
    James Dooley and Andy Chadwick discuss how SEO agencies can use agentic AI, guardrails and codified SOPs to speed up reporting, content writing and technical audits without sacrificing quality.
  • Choosing What AI SEO SaaS Tools to Build vs Shiny Object Syndrome (James Dooley Interviews Nathan Gotch)
    James Dooley and Nathan Gotch discuss how AI SEO SaaS companies can decide which tools to build, avoid shiny object syndrome and prioritise features that drive activation and retention.
  • AI Employees With Defined Roles: Building an Agentic Team for SEO Agencies (James Dooley Interviews Nathan Gotch)
    James Dooley and Nathan Gotch discuss how SEO agencies can build a team of focused AI employees with defined roles, using context optimisation and grounded expertise to automate work and scale in 2026.
  • AI Search Visibility: Main Optimisation Strategies for SEO Agencies (James Dooley ft Nathan Gotch)
    James Dooley and Nathan Gotch discuss the main optimisation strategies SEO agencies should use to increase LLM and AI search visibility in 2026, from tracking cited sources to owned assets, reviews and targeted Reddit placement.
  • Multi-Agent Systems vs Single AI Bots: Smarter AI Marketing for Digital Marketing Agencies in 2026 (James Dooley Interviews Nathan Gotch)
    James Dooley and Nathan Gotch explain why digital marketing agencies should adopt multi-agent AI systems over single AI bots in 2026 to improve accuracy, efficiency and search visibility.
  • AI Visibility Audit: Is Your Website Open for LLMs to Crawl? (James Dooley Interviews Stephen Burns)
    James Dooley and Stephen Burns explain how website owners can run an AI visibility audit to ensure large language models can crawl and render their sites for stronger AI search presence.
  • The Two Memories of AI: Parametric vs. Non-Parametric Memory Explained (James Dooley Interviews Stephen Burns)
    James Dooley and Stephen Burns from Common Crawl explain the difference between an LLM's parametric memory and live RAG retrieval, and how SEO agencies can influence both to improve AI visibility.
  • How Harmonic Centrality Powers Common Crawl and AI Visibility (James Dooley Interviews Stephen Burns)
    James Dooley interviews Stephen Burns of Common Crawl about how harmonic centrality drives CC Rank, crawl priority and long term brand visibility inside large language models.
  • Common Crawl for AI Visibility Explained with Stephen Burns
    James Dooley interviews Common Crawl's Stephen Burns on how Common Crawl data feeds large language models and how businesses can improve their AI visibility through permission, edge access, rendering and harmonic centrality.
  • Everything You Need to Know About Common Crawl For AI Visibility (James Dooley Interviews Stephen Burns)
    James Dooley and Common Crawl's Stephen Burns explain how Common Crawl data feeds large language models and how businesses can improve their AI visibility by getting crawled and building high harmonic centrality links.
  • How Harmonic Centrality Powers Common Crawl's CC Rank and AI Visibility (ft Stephen Burns)
    James Dooley and Stephen Burns from Common Crawl explain how harmonic centrality drives CC Rank, why crawl frequency matters, and how a stronger web-graph position can improve brand memory and visibility inside large language models.
  • How to Write Comparison Articles with Autoblogging.ai: Semantic SEO Strategies for SaaS and AI Tool Companies (James Dooley Interviews Vaibhav Sharda)
    James Dooley and Vaibhav Sharda explain how SaaS and AI software companies can use Autoblogging.ai's brand voice and competitor research features to write comparison articles that avoid AI slop and earn citations in Google AI Overview and ChatGPT.
  • How to Write Listicles with Autoblogging.ai for AI Visibility in 2026 (James Dooley Discusses with Vaibhav Sharda)
    James Dooley and Vaibhav Sharda explain how content marketing agencies can use Autoblogging.ai's brand voice and competitor analysis features to write verifiable listicles that get their brand cited by large language models.
  • Autoblogging.ai Competitor Analysis: Feeding the LLMs to Win AI Overviews in 2026 (James Dooley Interviews Vaibhav Sharda)
    James Dooley and Vaibhav Sharda demonstrate Autoblogging.ai's new competitor analysis feature and explain how AI-focused digital marketing companies can use comparison articles, listicles and third-party corroboration to get cited in ChatGPT, Gemini and G
  • Autoblogging.ai Brand Voice Feature: Consistent Entities and Non-Commodity Content (James Dooley Interviews Vaibhav Sharda)
    James Dooley and Autoblogging.ai founder Vaibhav Sharda explain how the brand voice feature helps SaaS and AI content businesses define their entity, keep facts consistent and write non-commodity listicles and comparison pages.
  • Aged Domains and AI Search: The New Gold Rush for LLM Visibility with Alex Drew (James Dooley Interviews Alex Drew)
    James Dooley and Alex Drew explain why aged domains are booming again in the age of AI search and how businesses can use them to seed LLMs, build entity authority and earn brand recommendations.
  • The Importance of AI Business Mentors: How Coaching Communities Accelerate Growth (James Dooley Interviews Alex Drew)
    James Dooley and Alex Drew discuss why AI business coaches and mentorship providers should combine trusted mentor networks, AI-driven guidance and in-person masterminds to save time, avoid costly mistakes and accelerate growth.