SEO Director

James Foote

Years of Experience: 21

About James

 

James, a seasoned SEO expert, has crafted award-winning digital growth strategies for renowned B2B global brands like CACI, Zurich Group, Quilter plus part of the marketing function within Pioneer Electronics and Hewlett Packard. As an ecommerce consultant, he has collaborated with 100+ leading retail names to increase organic search visibility within the Google Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) including brands such as sofa.com, Rapha, Seasalt, Farrow & Ball, Neptune, and Creed.

 

Formerly an SEO Agency Director of Strategy, James advised the Big 4 Accounting firms on digital due diligence for major private equity deals with Piper, British Growth Fund, Livingbridge, and LDC. An analytical technical SEO leader, he shapes go-to-market digital acquisition strategies for diverse sector brands, a renowned name in search marketing delivering complex website migrations, who can mobilise cross-departmental teams for peak SEO performance and guide marketing functions towards organic channel growth.

 

What James Cares About Within Search

  • Technical-excellence; working with clients and developers to optimise technical stacks
  • Semantic search, through entity alignment and NLP
  • Data science; analyse multiple data sets to find non-obvious actionable insights

 

Where James Has Been Featured

 

What James’ Interests Are

  • Weight training and rugby
  • Dining experiences
  • Self-development