Darren Kingman

Founder @ Root Digital (part of Re:signal)

About

Hi, I’m Darren - an experienced Digital PR & SEO professional, and Founder & CEO of Root Digital. Many moons ago, I’d been working at one of the UK’s top agencies when I had a desire for more flexibility in my life. With a newborn and an undeniable passion for what I was doing in digital PR & SEO, I made the decision to build my own agency from scratch. Throughout my career, Root Digital and I have: • Worked with some of the world’s largest brands • Produced measurable organic search returns of over $100m • Reached record-breaking ROI of 2190% in 12 months for a £200m market cap business • Won awards in Content, Digital PR & Search across US, UK and Europe :trophy: • Become one of the highest performing agencies globally And I’ve managed to become a featured author in many industry-leading publications! If you’ve made it this far into my bio, you might as well give me a follow 😉 I’m always open to questions or having insightful conversations so don’t hesitate to connect & reach out!

Country

United Kingdom

City

London

Industry

Marketing & Advertising

Skill

Online Marketing, Analytics, SEO, SEM, Content Production, Social Media, Facebook, Twitter, B2B, B2C, Internet, A/B testing, Multivariate Testing, User Experience, Search, Digital PR

Experience

Founder

Root Digital

2019-3 - Present · 7 yrs 7 mos

London, United Kingdom

Founder of market leading Digital PR and SEO agency Root Digital. We've transformed digital PR tactics and had our work featured in major SEO and marketing publications, along with multiple award wins and nominations globally. Our work has seen clients organic revenues grow by over 3,000% and millions in revenue, and putting them in publication they never thought possible.

Founder

Darren Kingman Limited

2018-6 - Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

London, United Kingdom

Digital PR and link building using a strategic SEO framework. Supporting clients, both start-ups and global brands alike, to increase organic search revenues by providing a technical SEO foundation & strategy before producing content and creative campaigns to put brands firmly in front of their target audience.

Senior Consultant

Builtvisible

2014-3 - 2018-6 · 4 yrs 4 mos

London, United Kingdom

In the over 4 years I worked as a Senior Consultant at Builtvisible, I managed a team of up to 12 people and some of the agency's largest accounts specialising in both technical and content projects. I was a key contributing factor in producing a market leading client retention rate, with multi-award nominated campaigns, and produced returns for clients of over $10m and an ROI exceeding 2,100% YOY on separate occasions. Separately, I spearheaded the company's link building and digital PR efforts, building thousands of placements and links, as well as providing training both internally and to clients.

Online Marketing Manager

Set Media International

2012-1 - 2014-2 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Responsible for A/B testing, link building, content production & outreach, social media management (Facebook and Twitter primarily), UX, article marketing, customer service, analytics reporting (using GA), on-page optimisation and technical SEO management. As a result, domain revenues increased over 600%, with the company being featured in over 1,000 publications, including The Guardian, Forbes, Gizmodo, Washington Post, etc.

Recruitment Consultant

Certain Advantage

2011-7 - 2011-11 · 5 mos

Piccadilly, London

2nd member of a newly devised team for AP Sales, recruiting for sales people across London.

Temporaries Consultant

Reed

2010-6 - 2011-2 · 9 mos

Docklands

Client facing role, including calling businesses, establishing and maintaining relationships, fact-finding, candidate sourcing, candidate management, CV sourcing and job publications