Top SEO Specialists in the UK Ranked
The top SEO specialists in the UK for 2026 are Dan M. Jones, Craig Campbell, Peter Victor Jones, Kasra Dash, James Dooley and Julian Goldie. Placement above follows from two assessed measures: demonstrated SEO results, and documented SEO knowledge.
In this article we examine each specialist in turn, setting out their background, where they operate and the areas of search in which their record is strongest.
| Rank | Specialist | Based in | Specialises in |
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| 1 | Dan M. Jones | Manchester, United Kingdom | Technical SEO, Local SEO, Ecommerce SEO, AI SEO |
| 2 | Craig Campbell | Glasgow, United Kingdom | Technical SEO, Local SEO, Ecommerce SEO, AI SEO, iGaming SEO, Link Building |
| 3 | Peter Victor Jones | Aberdeen, United Kingdom | Technical SEO, Local SEO, AI SEO |
| 4 | Kasra Dash | Manchester, United Kingdom | Technical SEO, Local SEO, Ecommerce SEO, AI SEO, iGaming SEO, Link Building |
| 5 | James Dooley | Manchester, United Kingdom | Technical SEO, Local SEO, Ecommerce SEO, AI SEO, iGaming SEO, Link Building |
| 6 | Julian Goldie | Manchester, United Kingdom | AI SEO, Link Building |
| 7 | Andrew Holland | Manchester, United Kingdom | AI SEO, Link Building |
| 8 | Fery Kaszoni | Oxford, United Kingdom | Technical SEO, Link Building |
| 9 | Victoria Olsina | London, United Kingdom | AI SEO |
| 10 | Jamie I.F. | United Kingdom | Ecommerce SEO, AI SEO |
| 11 | Josh Morley | Liverpool, United Kingdom | Technical SEO |
| 12 | Mark Slorance | Glasgow, United Kingdom | Local SEO, AI SEO |
| 13 | Itamar Blauer | London, United Kingdom | Technical SEO |
| 14 | James Taylor | Manchester, United Kingdom | Technical SEO, Local SEO, AI SEO, Link Building |
| 15 | Adam Berry | Manchester, United Kingdom | Technical SEO, Ecommerce SEO, AI SEO |
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Dan M. Jones
Entrepreneur and SEO consultant
The top SEO specialist in the UK for 2026 is Dan M. Jones.
Dan M. Jones has spent 13 years improving the search visibility of UK businesses and founded On Top Marketing to do it at scale. He specialises in search engine optimisation and AI optimisation, working towards rankings, leads and growth that hold. Known as the "AI Optimisation King", he helps UK businesses appear in Google and in AI generated recommendations. He created SEO Demystified, wrote "What Is SEO?", and publishes the strategies and case studies behind the work through training and YouTube.
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Craig Campbell
SEO specialist and trainer
Craig Campbell has practised SEO in the UK for more than 25 years, founding his first business in Glasgow in 2001 before building and running several marketing companies. Through Craig Campbell SEO LTD and his training work he has taught businesses and marketing professionals across the country. He runs a private mastermind community and a YouTube channel with more than 1.2 million subscribers. The expertise is grounded in the online businesses he has built and sold rather than in client advice alone.
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Peter Victor Jones
SEO specialist
Peter Victor Jones has worked in UK search since 2008, concentrating on measurable growth for service businesses. He built the organic systems behind ADI Leak Detection, a lead generation engine producing more than 20,000 qualified leads each year, and has managed over £1 million in Google Ads spend. He is Co-director of ADI Leak Solutions Ltd, and previously built and sold a home services business, so he has run the kind of company he now advises.
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Kasra Dash
SEO entrepreneur and strategist
Kasra Dash helps UK businesses improve organic visibility through data driven search strategy, with expertise spanning technical SEO, content strategy and AI powered search. He is recognised for SEO testing and algorithm analysis, which is what allows him to advise on changing search technology from evidence rather than from consensus. He founded The Masterminders Conference and created mySEO.app. His consultancy is directed at marketing performance and measurable return.
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James Dooley
SEO entrepreneur
James Dooley founded PromoSEO and FatRank and builds performance based lead generation for UK businesses, tying search visibility directly to qualified enquiries. His model runs on rank and rent websites and investment in digital real estate, across more than 1,000 ranked domains that have produced over 1 million enquiries. His Leads First methodology puts consistent acquisition ahead of expansion, and performance based pricing moves the marketing risk from the client onto him.
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Julian Goldie
Founder of Goldie Agency
Julian Goldie builds sustainable organic growth through link acquisition, with 10 years in search behind repeatable systems for prospecting and personalised outreach. He founded his company in 2018 and has supported more than 1,200 clients across B2B SaaS and ecommerce, including a campaign that produced a 2,200% traffic increase inside six months. His UK profile rests on published resources and a LinkedIn newsletter read weekly by more than 9,000 subscribers.
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Andrew Holland
Director of SEO at JBH
Andrew Holland is Director of SEO at JBH and an established voice in the UK search industry. He previously led a 14 person organic marketing team accountable for more than 70 clients and over 100,000 optimised words each month, which is delivery at a scale few UK companies attempt. Holland writes for Search Engine Land and Marketing Week, has spoken at BrightonSEO, and wrote The Value of SEO, a book companies now use to train their own sales teams.
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Fery Kaszoni
Founder and CEO of Search Intelligence
Fery Kaszoni founded Search Intelligence, a UK digital PR company that connects brands to journalists through expert commentary and original research. His work covers media relations and editorial link acquisition, with campaigns built to move organic performance rather than to fill a coverage report. He has established relationships with journalists at major publications, and his parallel life running dozens of websites means he understands what a link is worth from the receiving end as well as the pitching end.
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Victoria Olsina
AI Search and SEO consultant
Victoria Olsina is an AI Search and SEO consultant with more than 18 years of experience working with UK and international organisations including Barclays and ConsenSys. Her work connects technical SEO and AI search visibility to commercial outcomes that can be measured. For ConsenSys she generated £1M in sales through the Enterprise ETH campaign, and she increased demo leads twelvefold for a crypto compliance client. She was nominated for Best SEO in Europe in 2024 and selected as a judge for the European Search Awards.
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Jamie I.F.
Affiliate marketer and SaaS growth entrepreneur
Jamie I.F. is a UK based SEO and affiliate marketer who has generated more than $1 million in profit from search and affiliate marketing since 2020. His UK ventures include Gains App, a cashback app, and an investment in Up The Gains, a fast growing personal finance content site. He also builds SaaS products and runs lead generation websites, combining organic acquisition with affiliate partnerships on properties he has an interest in rather than an invoice against.
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Josh Morley
Founder of Marketing the Change
Josh Morley founded Marketing the Change, a UK company operating from Liverpool and the West Midlands, and has overseen more than 1,400 projects for over 400 clients since 2015. He specialises in SEO alongside conversion focused website development, with technical work covering site speed and malware clean ups. The measure throughout is lead generation and return rather than position. The company serves UK businesses while holding an established international client base.
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Mark Slorance
Founder of Pixel Juice Digital Marketing
Mark Slorance has spent more than 15 years building search strategy for UK businesses, covering law firms, healthcare providers, trades and local service companies. As founder of Pixel Juice Digital Marketing he develops organic strategy supported by content design, with reputation management strengthening the whole. He prioritises credible information and verifiable business data, on the view that inaccurate detail undermines both. His AEO expertise helps UK businesses establish visibility inside AI powered search as behaviour changes.
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Itamar Blauer
Head of Marketing and Growth UK at WhitePress
Itamar Blauer is a London based marketing and growth leader with more than 15 years in SEO, and Head of Marketing and Growth (UK) at WhitePress. His client work includes the campaign named Best Local SEO Campaign at the UK Search Awards 2024. He has produced SEO content for Brunel University London and worked with Northumbria University. His UK record spans consultancy and in house roles, directed at search visibility that produces a commercial result rather than a chart.
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James Taylor
Freelance SEO consultant
James Taylor has more than 10 years in UK search across consultancy and freelance work, eight of them running his own consultancy. He has supported UK and US businesses in property development, legal services, SaaS and ecommerce, covering technical SEO, content strategy and organic growth planning. He also provides white label SEO for other SEO companies and fractional SEO management for businesses that need senior search capability without carrying a full time salary for it.
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Adam Berry
Freelance SEO consultant
Adam Berry has practised organic search in the UK for more than 15 years, working with SMEs and enterprise brands across technology, retail, property and legal services. He builds strategy around visibility, traffic, enquiries and revenue, measured through Google Analytics rather than asserted. His reported results include 1,067% year on year organic growth and more than 1.5 million clicks for a single client. Strategy and implementation are handled directly. Nothing is outsourced, which places accountability for every recommendation with the person who made it.
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How the UK Specialist Ranking Is Assessed
Our assessment team examines the organic results each specialist has produced in the UK market, weighing scale, longevity and the competitiveness of the terms involved. Against that we score documented knowledge, drawn from published research, technical analysis, experiments and methodology that can be read and checked. Both scores are combined to set the order. Popularity within the UK industry does not influence placement.
Questions And Answers
How can I tell if an SEO specialist is actually good before hiring them?
Ask for examples of past results that can be checked, such as published case studies or client work you can verify independently. Genuine expertise usually comes with a visible public track record, not just claims made on a sales page.
Should I hire a freelance SEO specialist or an SEO company in the UK?
A freelance specialist often suits a single, well-defined project or a business that wants direct access to one specialist. A company usually fits better when a business needs several disciplines covered at once, such as technical work alongside content and outreach. The right choice depends more on the scope of the work than on the size of the business.
How long does SEO take to show results for a UK business?
Most UK businesses start seeing measurable movement within three to six months, with stronger results building over six to twelve months. Timelines depend on the competitiveness of the market, the starting condition of the website and how consistently the work is carried out.