Azeem Digital Asks - The All-Round Digital Marketing Podcast

My guest this week is the fantastic Christine Gritmon. You've probably seen her all over social media with her awesome GIF reactions to messages. She describes herself as a GIF machine, microbusiness megafan, she's a personal branding coach, and a social media trainer, as well as hosting her own chats too! In this episode, I get to pick her brains all about her expertise - personal branding. We di...

The lovely Sarah Scarfe is my guest on the podcast this week. She's completely obsessed with all things paid advertising and data related, with over 10 years in-house, agency and contracting experience. We have a great conversation about PPC and automation. We discuss: Why she thinks more people should be automating PPC tasks. Her favourite automation tips, and favourite scripts. The impact that l...

Miracle Inameti-Archibong joins me on the show this week to discuss an important topic - the impact of parenthood on career progress, and just how progressive the digital marketing industry is.  Miracle is the Head of SEO at Erudite, and is also a judge at the Drum Search Awards. You'll regularly see her sharing her knowledge either on Clubhouse, or Twitter - to name just two platforms. We ha...

Joining me on the Azeem Digital Asks podcast this week is the simply brilliant Thierry Ngutegure - Data and Insights Manager at Rise at Seven. Quite simply, for me, there's nobody that thinks about or approaches data in the way that Thierry does. He makes it accessible for people of all levels and is fantastic as visualising it too. We discuss: The biggest mistakes he thinks people make with data...

The fantastic Aleyda Solis joins me on the show this week. She's an International SEO Consultant, Speaker & Author, and the brains behind one of the best newsletters in the industry - SEOFOMO. She joins me to discuss remote working, and how she grew her email list.  This episode was recorded shortly after the sad news that the industry had lost one of the most cared for, and helpful peopl...

Wouldn't you love to know some really useful tips on how to pitch to a journalist, from someone who has not just student and local press experience, but nationals too? Look (and listen) no further.  The wonderful Sian Elvin - award winning journalist and assistant news editor at Metro.co.uk - comes onto the show to discuss all things pitching, her inbox, and some of the mistakes she's seen pe...

What a way to start the next season/phase of episodes of the Azeem Digital Asks podcast.  My guest is the SEO Twitter Flame, my good friend, Kristina Azarenko. She is a Toronto based SEO consultant, providing eCommerce SEO, Technical SEO, Website Migrations and Google Analytics consulting so that you can finally get what you’re looking for - via her company MarketingSyrup. Kristina is someone...

Joining me on this episode is Barry Schwartz, CEO of RustyBrick. He's the founder of Search Engine Roundtable, and has covered search news for over 17 years (You may recognise him from his famous "not new" replies when people share updates on Twitter). As well as this he is a co-ordinator, speaker, and moderator at many search marketing conferences. We have a great conversation about how he keeps...

Happy new year! Welcome to 2021. Joining me on the Azeem Digital Asks podcast for the first episode of 2021 is Google's very own, John Mueller. John is always super helpful over on Twitter, taking time out to help people with their general SEO queries and giving pointers. John was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule to talk about: What his autobiography would be called, if he wrote o...

For the final episode of 2020, I have an incredible guest - Izzi Smith -  a Munich-based SEO with a penchant for SERP optimization, Structured Data, UX, tech SEO, and making people smile with her cheesy jokes and SEO memes. She's also a regular on the conference speaking circuit, and shares LOTS of useful information.  We talk about: Her origins in the industry, moving from Burnley to Mu...

Joining me on the show this week is the awesome Rand Fishkin. He is the cofounder and CEO of SparkToro. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through his blogging, videos, speaking, and his book, Lost and Founder. When Rand’s not working, he’s most likely to be in the company of his partner in marriage and (mostly petty) crime, author Geraldine DeRuiter. If you...

On this episode of the show, I'm joined by my good friend Kirk Williams, aka PPCKirk -  widely renowned PPC Expert, Conference Speaker, and more recently - book author!  We talk all about his journey into the industry, successes and failures, useful marketing tips, and he gives us the lowdown on his recently published book: "Ponderings of a PPC Professional: A Collection of Philosophical...

My guest on the show this week is the brilliant Mike Blumenthal. He has an extensive background in the industry and is widely recognised as a Local SEO expert. Many current SEO's have cited Mike as their inspiration and it's really not hard to see why after talking to him. Mike has spent a large part of his career analysing everything there is in terms of local SEO and widely shares this informati...

Episode 20! It was only right after the brilliant Garrett Sussman had me on his show that I returned the favour and found out what makes him tick.  Garrett is the Head of Content at Traject, has his own podcast where he picks the brains and shares useful tips from some brilliant people in the industry, and is genuinely one of the nicest guys you could meet. We talk about failed migrations, wh...

What a guest we have on the show this week. Joining me is the awesome Diana Richardson who is the social media, and community manager at SEMrush.  She loves wine, she’s a public speaker, she’s a thyroid cancer survivor, and she is into SEO, SEM, digital marketing, and you'll more often than not find her being super helpful and helping curate the great #SEMRushChat over on Twitter. We have a b...

My guest on the show this week is the awesome Owain Lloyd-Williams. He is an SEO consultant with a decade's experience in the digital marketing industry.  He initially cut his SEO teeth during a long stint working in China in a previous life. During his time in the industry, he has consulted for a large palette of brands in a variety of industries in both agency and in-house settings and has...

My guest on the show this week is the incredible Melanie Deziel. She is a keynote speaker, award-winning branded content creator, and lifelong storyteller, on a mission to share the power of compelling and credible content with others.  Melanie is the founder and Chief Content Officer of StoryFuel, which teaches marketers, creators and organizations how to tell better brand stories, and the a...

My guest on the show this week is the awesome Rebekah Dunne, content executive at Sweet Digital agency, based in the Black Country in the West Midlands. We have a great conversation about her background, how she'd survive a zombie apocalypse (you read that right), Gilmore Girls, her passion for writing, the need for a "tribe", people who you can lift up and who lift you up too - and so much more....

My guest on the show this week is the fantastic Joyann Boyce. She is the founder of The Social Detail, co-founder of the BME Collective, and a Data Fellow with the South West Creative Technology Network. She's also someone I have had the pleasure of sharing a webinar presentation with recently, and definitely worth following on social media as the content she shares really makes you think critical...

The absolutely awesome Christina Brodzky, founder of MediaSesh, joins me on the show this week. She has been in the industry for over 11 years, and has experience in working in corporate for a decade, supporting well-known personalities and Fortune 500 companies, before growing her own SEO consulting firm. We have a great conversation about her journey into the industry, how she views failure, and...

Joining me this week on the show is the fantastic Rikki Lear, Director of Digital 22, a specialist HubSpot agency, based in the UK.  To put it quite simply, you should ABSOLUTELY listen to this episode - Rikki is incredibly open, and honest - and shares all of the highs, and some of the lows that he's experienced throughout his career. He talks about the difficulties of looking after an agenc...

My guest this week is the incredible Andrea Cruz. She's the Digital Marketing Manager at KoMarketing, a conference speaker, corgi mom, and most importantly - listed TWICE as one of the top 50 most influential PPC experts to follow by PPC Hero.  In this episode, we discuss which of her previous and current colleagues are a big source of inspiration for her, what she really values and enjoys ab...

Following on from the first part of the Rise at Seven special this week, my guest on this episode is the awesome Sophie Gibson.  Sophie is an SEO Strategist at Rise at Seven, and also is the queen of penguin gifts - which she shares more about in the episode. Hear from Sophie about gaining confidence, who is an inspiration for her in the industry, and also to get a nice preview of her upcomin...

To mark hitting episode 10, I'm doing a double release this week, and it's a Rise at Seven special! First up, my guest is the absolutely brilliant Luke Cope. Luke is a the Head of Digital Strategy at Rise at Seven (having just been promoted yesterday - CONGRATULATIONS LUKE!), and he shares a lot of knowledge from his years in the industry. You won't want to miss this episode, because he shares abo...

When podcasts collide! In an absolute first for the podcast, I'm joined by TWO guests, the incredible Sarah and Hannah, co-hosts of the wonderful SEO SAS Podcast. We have a great conversation about how they began their podcast, how they feel about becoming co-workers, and they also share some really useful tips that can help you become better marketers. We also get to the bottom of why one of them...