6X AWARD-WINNING
SEO Speaker & Keynote Presenter
Hey there! I’m Ryan Chilton, and I’m here to turn your next event into an unforgettable experience. Whether you’re organising an SEO conference, podcast, or workshop, I’ll bring a unique blend of expertise and dynamic SEO Speaker skills that will leave your audience inspired and equipped with actionable insights.
Why Choose Me As Your Next Digital Marketing Speaker
I’m not just another speaker claiming to be an expert. I’m the real deal, with a track record to prove it:
- Award-Winning SEO Campaigns: My work has earned top honours at the APAC Search Awards includingthe Emerging Talent Award.
- Cutting Edge Education: With a Bachelor’s Degree Majoring in Digital Marketing & eCommerce from the USA I know how best to teach digital marketing through my experience with learning in a formal environment.
- Hands-On Experience: As a Senior SEO Specialist at Digital Surfer, I’ve helped numerous businesses skyrocket their online presence.
- Continuous Learner: I’m always experimenting with new strategies to stay ahead of the curve. Running 10+ websites in my spare time I use these as personal projects to ensure I never stop learning or testing.
Digital Marketing & SEO Speaker Topics
Becoming an Expert Marketer (The E-Shaped Marketing model)
- Why the E-shaped marketer outperforms T-shaped models
- Build a multi-skilled approach to your marketing career
- The emotional intelligence skills most marketers overlook
- Learn to market yourself as well as you market your clients (Personal Brand)
- Ryan’s personal roadmap entry level marketer to a trusted industry voice
Future Proof Your Marketing
- Learn how to build adaptive marketing strategies that evolve with digital trends
- Understand your ideal client and how this persona will change with the younger generations.
- Discover how to avoid channel dependency and build a multimodal online presence.
- develop a long term strategy that grows with your audience.
- Real-world frameworks Ryan uses to scale future-ready campaigns
SEO Best Practices & Tools
- What actually works in SEO today (beyond the buzzwords)
- The tools top SEO’s use to optimise without guesswork
- On-page SEO tips to ensure your content is visible in SERP’s & AI
- How to structure your content.
- Technical SEO tips that give you a performance edge
- Real client examples of SEO-led growth strategies
Marketing vs Sales
- How to align your messaging across marketing and sales
- Why disconnected teams kill conversions
- SEO doesn’t end at the lead… SEO ends with $$ in the bank.
- Providing Real ROI figures, not vanity metrics
- Getting buy-in from stakeholders & sales teams.
Local SEO | A 2x Award-winning Local SEO Case Study
- Award-winning Case Study: How Ryan helped local businesses go from one site to multiple
- Building a location page strategy that works
- On-page and off-page tactics for local domination
- Secrets to geo-targeted content that converts
Demystifying SEO
- The biggest SEO Myths
- Simple, no-jargon breakdown of SEO’s moving parts
- Why search is still your highest-ROI marketing channel
- Red flags to look out for when hiring an angency
- What Google actually rewards in 2025 and beyond
YouTube SEO & Video Marketing
- YouTube is the second largest search engine (and biggest untapped traffic source)
- How to structure and optimise videos to rank
- Metadata, thumbnails and watch time strategies that matter
- Building bingeable video content for authority and leads
- Converting viewers into subscribers and customers
Conferences
Podcasts
Uni Lectures
Other Speaking Gigs
Ryan In Action: Speaking & Podcast Examples
Gold Coast Leaders Workshop
Topic: Future Proof Your Marketing
Trusted Authority Podcast
Topic: Level Up Your Brand Online
Media & Recognition
Featured, Awarded & Recognised By The Best
Why Choose Ryan For Your Next Speaking Gig
"I have dealt with Ryan to create a whole website for my business to make it really easy for people to shop all my amazing platters... His expertise and knowledge in SEO and web design is absolutely amazing. He has just helped me grow my business immensely. I've had so many more leads coming through, and I would highly recommend Ryan to anybody needing help in this department. He is top tier, he knows what he's doing, and he really listens to what you want as well in that design..."
Tahlia MacDonald
Owner, Tropical Grazing
"I met Ryan through Digital Surfer. They're a company that we engage for our Digital SEO... Two years ago, before Ryan started, a lot of our calls were I tripped on a footpath and I've hurt myself. Whereas nowadays, the inquiries are solid Workers comp claims, they're medical negligence claims, they're larger claims, they're better quality claims. And we've got Ryan to thank for that...
He's a great young guy. I'm sure you'll get to know that if you speak with him. And I couldn't recommend him enough in this space..."
Lachlan Main
Principle Lawyer, Main Lawyers
"Ryan stepped up to share his SEO expertise with one of my student groups... He provided them with a detailed overview of SEO best practices... I was really impressed with his "how to" slides with annotations so the students could navigate the SEO reporting output.
During his talk, Ryan described optimizing through content, meta data, and internal linking structure and then got deeper into technical SEO, off-page SEO, and as a bonus, YouTube SEO... He is a true professional and I appreciate his willingness to share his knowledge with our students!"
Daniele Mathras
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, North Eastern University
"I have seen Ryan push himself to become an award-winning digital marketing leader. When a friend in the U.S. sought an expert speaker for an event, I recommended Ryan over any of my American alumni in the same field because he is the best.
I already consider Ryan to be an emerging leader in his field of digital marketing locally and he is on a trajectory to become a global technology leader who will help Australia thrive and give back in this sector."
Dr Scott Cowley
Associate Professor & Program Director for Digital Marketing & eCommerce, Western Michigan University
"Ryan is my mentor, and he has been phenomenal in helping me kickstart my career as a young professional. Through the meetings I’ve had with him, we have ranged from internship processes to analysing internships for digital marketing professionals, SEO specialists, what that looks like… after a couple of weeks, I was able to secure an internship, which I’m so thankful for Ryan’s help.
I couldn’t have done it without him. Anything that I have a question about, I know I can go to Ryan and he will have the answer."
Unity Heim
Student Mentee, WMU
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