Darren Kingman
CEO & Founder
Darren set Root up in 2019 after initially going freelance in 2018 but quickly needing help from others. He's heavily involved in all day-to-day aspects of client work and communication, merging an extensive digital PR background with SEO fundamentals and performance.
Recent Posts by Darren Kingman
Reactive Digital PR: What is it & how do you do it?
In this article looking at the full spectrum of Reactive Digital PR, we’re going to be diving into a few topics to break it down, including: As an agency that builds thousands of links per year globally, we’re…
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Unlinked Mentions: Turning Mentions into Links
Finding unlinked mentions is the fastest and most effective ROI link building method you can use for building links. Numero uno. It’s also especially useful for larger brands and businesses, as you’ll naturally have more to pounce on….
Darren Kingman
Journo Request Series – July 2023
Journalist requests are a key reactive Digital PR tactic for many agency and in-house teams. It’s a quick way to utilise your experience and expertise to build yourself as a topical authority within your own niche. Needless to…
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Build an Octopus: Link Building Framework for Digital PR Campaigns
Why only have one link building angle when you can have several? Creative campaigns for link building and digital PR can be a risky business – if you’re doing it right. Their success is almost always measured on…
Darren Kingman
Tracking Link Building & Digital PR Campaigns
Missing a link is as good as not building it in the first place Tracking the success of a digital pr campaign for link building purposes is probably one of the most undervalued parts of what we do…
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Digital PR Job Hunting & Application Tips
Although I’d like for this to be an actionable and relevant article for years to come, I’m publishing it at a time when a lot of people are finding themselves out of a job. I’d had it in…
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Project Reclamation: Finding new link building tactics
There are many link building tactics that work well and can be used for pretty much every domain looking to boost their link building efforts. However, over the years, I’ve had to get quite creative in my approach,…
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Tactical Guest Posting: Ranking for keywords out of your league
There’s a very high probability that you want to rank for a wide range of queries or have even attempted to and the rankings just aren’t there. You hit publish on your page, leave it a few months…
Darren Kingman