Mark Williams-Cook

SEO & AI-search professional, agency director and SaaS founder. I run experiments, build tools, and share what actually moves the needle in search.

Greater Norwich Area, United Kingdom

About

๐‡๐ข, ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ค - ๐ˆ'๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐’๐„๐Ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ˆ ๐š๐ฆ ๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ: ๐Ÿข Director at Candour - an SEO agency based in UK (contact us for SEO + web builds) ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Founder of AlsoAsked - a search intent research SaaS tool (subscribe for the best intent tool on the planet) ๐Ÿ• Co-owner of TopDog Harnesses - a UK-based e-commerce business (make your dog look cute) ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Building other SaaS tools such as IntentGaps.com, QueryClassifier.com, QueryFan.com (all free) ๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ: ๐Ÿ† Being awarded $13,337 Google security bug bounty for search endpoint exploit (donated to charity) ๐ŸŒ Speaking globally on SEO at events such as SERPConf, SEODay, Tech SEO Summit, semKRK, Zagreb SEO, BrightonSEO, Search'n'Stuff, International Search Summit, Athens SEO and more ๐Ÿ“ฐ My work and research is regularly featured in places such as Wall Street Journal, BBC News, SearchEngineLand, Search Engine Journal, HubSpot, Wix, and Yoast ๐Ÿ’ญ Over 1,500 daily 'unsolicited' SEO tips (Hit the bell for a tip every day on LI) ๐Ÿ’Œ Core Updates SEO newsletter (It's free, 13k subscribers https://coreupdates.com) ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Search with Candour podcast (http://search.withcandour.co.uk/) ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ My top-rated SEO course on Udemy (https://t.ly/JCR-) ๐Ž๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ž: โœ๏ธ Substack: https://markwillamscook.substack.com ๐ŸŽฅ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@mwcsearch ๐Ÿ“ฑ TikTok: https://tiktok.com/mark.williamscook ๐Ÿฆ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/markwilliamscook.com ๐…๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž: โœ”๏ธ If you're a fellow SEO and want to chat โœ”๏ธ You're at a business, you want SEO, and have a budget for it โœ”๏ธ You'd like to personally berate me for any of my SEO tips ๐๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž: โŒ Asking for SEO advice for your website for free โŒ Are a person offering guest posting, links, websites or anything in digital โŒ Generally, anyone if all you want to do is sell to me, you get the idea โŒ No, i don't need your lead generation service

Experience

  • Director at Candour
    Jun 2016 - Present ยท 10 yrs 2 mos

    Most great websites donโ€™t get found. Ours do.

  • Founder at AlsoAsked at AlsoAsked
    Nov 2019 - Present ยท 6 yrs 9 mos

    The best People Ask research tool on the planet for discovering intent in the AI era.

  • Partner at YouTube
    Aug 2007 - Nov 2018 ยท 11 yrs 4 mos

    I was invited in the first year of the programme to become a YouTube partner. One of my videos produced 88 million views and was one of the top 10 of all time comedy videos on YouTube. Cats are really popular on the internet.

  • Managing Director at AFK Apparel
    Jan 2014 - Jan 2017 ยท 3 yrs 1 mo

    AFK (Away From Keyboard) Apparel is a fashion label aimed primarily at gamers. It is an e-commerce business I have started with the aim of doing a couple of things I enjoy and raising some money for charity at the same time. AFK works with local businesses for production and with designers from USA, Canada, France and the UK with a revenue split on their used designs. As of 2017, AFK exclusively sells on the Game.co.uk marketplace.

  • Digital Director at Selesti
    Sep 2014 - May 2016 ยท 1 yr 9 mos

    I came into Selesti to lead the digital marketing team after acquisition of OMG Search. During my 18 months, I doubled the revenue of the marketing department and tripled profits through negotiating better contracts with suppliers, increasing efficiency with new in-house processes and winning new key clients for digital marketing such as Hitachi DMG. I was instrumental in the expansion of the Selesti team, finding new talent and planning the strategic growth of the department with the senior management team.