Gareth James aka SEO Doctor

Operating as a solo practitioner rather than a full agency, Gareth James works remotely from the UK and Thailand under the name SEO Doctor, offering freelance off-page SEO to businesses, agencies and ecommerce brands. He has worked in digital marketing professionally since 2008 and has run his own websites since 2001, at one point managing over 30 affiliate sites, now reduced to five. His main niches are travel and finance, having worked with some of the UK's larger travel and comparison websites, though he has experience across most sectors and also takes on iGaming clients. He holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies (Marketing) from London Metropolitan University. Services are deliberately narrow: link building and outreach, delivered through freelance link building, custom outreach, bespoke link inserts (niche edits), SaaS-focused link building, and digital PR for link building, alongside local SEO packages. He describes his approach as white-hat, built around authority signals and off-page strategies rather than broader SEO or design work. Engagements can be structured as one-off projects, monthly retainers, white-label support for other agencies, or consultancy, with no in-person meetings offered, only remote contact via phone. He is also incorporating LLM-based SEO (AEO/GEO) into client work as an emerging service area, describing this as still experimental.