James Dooley, SEO entrepreneur and founder of PromoSEO and FatRank

James Dooley

SEO entrepreneur

James Dooley is an SEO specialist based in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Since 2009, James Dooley has grown PromoSEO and FatRank into a portfolio of more than 1,000 ranked domains that between them have generated upwards of a million online enquiries, run on the belief that a ranked website should behave like a yield producing asset rather than a project you finish and forget. Performance based pricing, used across his “Digital Landlord”, “Investorpreneur” and “Leads First” methods, keeps the financial risk sitting with him rather than the client.

The common thread across all three approaches is that a website should keep paying out rather than sit still once it launches. “Digital Landlord” turns visibility into a steady, ongoing lead flow, “Investorpreneur” applies an acquisition mindset to buying and improving existing sites and “Leads First” holds enquiry volume steady before any new expansion gets attempted.

Technically, semantic SEO and entity based work support all of it, aimed at Knowledge Graph recognition and strong EEAT signals rather than individual keyword targeting. With more than 1,000 domains to manage, AI automation carries most of the day to day operational load, since manual oversight at that scale isn’t realistic. A ranking, in his framing, is only a waypoint, qualified enquiries are the actual destination.

He writes up the method rather than keeping it to himself: “Leads First” and “Advanced SEO Tips 2025” both come out of the same underlying work, expanded on further through the UK Lead Generation Podcast and Entrepreneurship Uncensored Podcast. Mentoring marketers and founders on building lead systems durable enough to hold up is the consistent thread, letting enquiry volume rather than a sales pitch do the work of earning new clients.

What James Dooley Focuses On

James Dooley specialises in Technical SEO, Local SEO, Ecommerce SEO, AI SEO, iGaming SEO and Link Building.

James Dooley’s Current Rankings