David Towers

Name	David Towers
Job Title	Head of SEO
Organisation	MEC
Member Level	Enterprise
Member Since	23 Sep 2009
Areas of Expertise	Online Advertising, Social Media, Search Marketing - Organic/Natural (SEO), Web Analytics, Web Design

About Me

David is the Head of SEO at MEC a GroupM/WPP company), leading a team of 25 SEOs across Manchester and London. Since joining MEC, David grew the team from just himself to a team of 25, helped increase SEO revenue to over £2 mllion and quadrupled the client base.

When not working at MEC, David writes about online marketing at GoodWebPractices, consults for a number of charities, is on the advisory board of icould and is an industry speaker at the University of Salford's Search and Social Media Marketing course.

David has always had a keen interest in technology and put his first website online in 2000. David stumbled into SEO while doing an internship in online marketing in 2005 and having responsibility for the paid search, posing the question why pay for clicks when it's possible to get to the top of Google without paying for each click?

In 2010, David was chosen as a MediaWeek '30 under 30' rising star for "breaking new ground in SEO" and in 2011 he won silver in MediaWeek's 'Agency rising star' category.

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