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.

  • Does Every Website Need a Topical Map? Building Search Authority in 2026
    James Dooley and Germans Frolovs discuss whether every website needs a topical map and how content strategy shapes search authority and conversions for website owners in 2026.
  • AI Visibility Opportunities: Finding the Gaps to Get Cited More in LLMs
    James Dooley and Eldar Cohen explore how businesses can find market gaps and use on-page and off-page strategies to get cited more often in ChatGPT, Gemini and other LLMs in 2026.
  • AI Visibility Share of Voice: How Home Service Businesses Can Beat Competitors in LLMs
    James Dooley and Eldar Cohen explain how home service businesses can use AI visibility and Share of Voice tracking to get cited more often in LLMs and beat their competition in 2026.
  • Local Dominator Review: AI Visibility and Local SEO Strategies for Local Businesses with Eldar Cohen
    James Dooley and Eldar Cohen review Local Dominator and discuss which digital marketing strategies local businesses should use in 2026 to boost AI visibility, Google Business Profile performance and citations across LLMs.
  • Digital Marketing Strategies for Personal Brands and Coaches in 2026
    James Dooley and Julian Goldie discuss which digital marketing strategies personal brands and coaches should prioritise in 2026 to build authority, visibility and consistent lead flow.
  • The Reputation Tree: Advanced AI SEO Strategies for Higher LLM Visibility
    James Dooley and Julian Goldie explore advanced AI SEO tactics that help digital marketing agencies boost their visibility across large language models and search in 2026.
  • The Benefits of Joining an AI Community for Digital Marketers in 2026
    James Dooley and Julian Goldie discuss which digital marketing strategies AI community businesses should prioritise in 2026 to improve visibility, engagement and lead generation.
  • Why AI Communities Are the Secret to Staying Ahead in 2026 (ft Julian Goldie)
    James Dooley and Julian Goldie explain why joining an active AI community such as AI Profit Boardroom helps businesses learn faster, avoid costly mistakes and stay ahead of the constant pace of AI change.
  • Best AI Communities in 2026: Top Groups to Learn Artificial Intelligence with Julian Goldie
    James Dooley and Julian Goldie discuss which digital marketing strategies AI communities and learning platforms should focus on in 2026 to boost engagement, member growth and long term authority.
  • The Digital PR Double Bubble: Winning SEO Authority and Branded AI Mentions for Local Businesses
    James Dooley and Chris Pantella explain how digital PR earned media links deliver a "double bubble" of stronger Google rankings and greater AI visibility for local service businesses.
  • Who You Are, What You Do and Why You Are Freakin' Brilliant: The Best AI SEO Strategy for Digital PR Agencies
    James Dooley and Chris Panteli explain how digital PR agencies can use the claim, frame and prove framework and the "who you are, what you do, why you're freaking brilliant" model to boost AI SEO, LLM visibility and entity authority in 2026.
  • How to Optimise for AI Mode in Google Search with Charles Floate
    James Dooley and Charles Floate explain how businesses can optimise for Google's AI Mode by prioritising third-party corroboration, mention building and machine-verifiable brand data ahead of AI Mode becoming the default search experience.
  • Will AI Mode Become the Default Google Search? James Dooley Interviews Charles Floate
    James Dooley and Charles Floate debate whether Google AI Mode will become the default search experience by Q4 2026 and how SEOs and digital marketing agencies should prepare for a more personalised, ecosystem-driven search landscape.
  • Tracking LLMs and Improving Brand Sentiment in AI Overviews for All Brands
    James Dooley and Karl Hudson explain why all brands should monitor branded mentions across LLMs and use an AI reputation tree to protect and improve sentiment in AI overviews.
  • Digital Word of Mouth: Building Third-Party Proof for LLM Visibility with Karl Hudson
    James Dooley and Karl Hudson explain how service businesses can build third-party "digital word of mouth" through case studies, testimonials and correctly structured semantics to boost LLM visibility, referral-quality leads and conversion rates.
  • AI Citation and Brand Mention Building for Better LLM Visibility with Karl Hudson
    James Dooley and Karl Hudson explain how AI citation and brand mention building companies can improve LLM visibility, consensus and recommendations across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini in 2026.
  • iGaming AI SEO: Ranking Online Gambling Sites for Greater LLM Visibility in 2026
    James Dooley and Kyle Allison discuss how iGaming and online gambling brands can use AI SEO and online reputation management to improve LLM visibility, positive sentiment and recommendations in 2026.
  • Sports Betting AI SEO: Ranking Sportsbooks for More LLM Visibility with Karl Hudson
    James Dooley and Karl Hudson explain how sportsbook brands can improve their AI SEO to be cited and recommended more often by large language models such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini.
  • Casino AI SEO: Ranking Online Casinos for More LLM Visibility
    James Dooley and Karl Hudson discuss the digital marketing strategies online casinos should prioritise in 2026 to boost LLM visibility, search presence and player acquisition.
  • How to Get AI to Recommend Your Brand: Building Third-Party Trust Signals
    James Dooley and Karl Hudson discuss the digital marketing strategies brands should focus on in 2026 to get recommended by AI and build strong third-party trust signals.