Jon

Technical Director
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Jon Payne is the founder and Technical Director of Noisy Little Monkey. His successful sales career stretches back some 20 years with the last dozen or so working online. For the last 7 years Jon’s focus has been Search and Social Media Marketing. in addition to his role as 'Great Ape of Inbound' at Noisy Little Monkey, Jon gives frequent talks and seminars about digital marketing. A knowledgeable and entertaining speaker – Jon will make you laugh and make you think. Sometimes both.


  • Loves: Working with loud music playing.
  • Hates: Nothing. But he can't bear a cheese sandwich without marmite.
  • Most likely to say: What the f***?
  • Will dance to: Magnetic Man

Favourite website: For work? SEOmoz and for everything else The Oatmeal


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Recent blog posts written by Jon

Big Noise Charity Logos

For whom should we make a Big Noise?

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could help us choose who should win £9,000 of free marketing? Well, you bloody well can!

SEO isn’t rocket science

The most useful resources and guides for SEO for beginners. Tried and tested, with no bitter aftertaste.

A Big Noise for a Good Cause

Launching A Big Noise for a Good Cause

Free digital marketing help for Bristol and Somerset charities and not for profit organisations. Ahh. Nice, huh?

NLM making a big noise

UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR LOCAL CHARITIES WITH LAUNCH OF ‘BIG NOISE FOR A GOOD CAUSE’ COMPETITION

Local charities and not-for-profit organisations could be in with the chance of winning a year’s digital marketing support worth almost £10,000, thanks to the launch of a new competition from social media marketing company, Noisy Little Monkey. Aptly named ‘Big Noise for a Good Cause’, to enter the competition, registered charities, not-for-profits and social enterprises [...]

Slap some sense into your marketing consultant

Love this ad from Adobe – It’s so good I’ve added it to my blog, so it also works socially, right? Nice one Adobe… If you want to try a free tool to measure your ROI from social media, you should download Professor Traffic, Noisy Little Monkey’s chrome add on. It integrates straight away with [...]

Simon Peg gets real

Shit just got real. Personal.

We endeavour to produce messages that resonate emotionally. Here’s how we’re going to do it better and how you can improve too!

good guy bad guy but who is who?

Who Do You Trust?

If you are a follower of Matt Cutts or Amit Singhal, you will know that Google’s ultimate aim for its search algorithms is to mimic human behavior. Despite all the mythology about what Google wants, there are some very common sense principles at the heart of its search processes: key among these are trust and [...]

Monkey with suitcase

New Head Office In Bristol at Aardman

This is a bit of a rushed post as this week we’ve moved into our new office. It’s at Aardman Animation! When we spotted the space online, we didn’t know it was with such a cool landlord, but we loved the name of the building: The Banana Warehouse! Tony, Howard and their teams have made [...]

Trustworthy SEO Advice

Top 5 Trustworthy (and Free) SEO Resources

Natasha’s recent post Where Can I Find Free Images? caused a minor furor among the Monkey Followers. She got feedback along the lines of “you should always pay for images”… which I think is CRAZY! Certainly, sometimes you should pay for a bespoke service, but that’s not always necessary. This site is full of a [...]

TXM Client Day July 2012

Here’s Jon’s preso from today at TXM’s client day at the Porsche Centre, Silverstone. If you’d like an informal chat about how we might help you – do contact us or call 0845 643 0977 – we will help.           Can social media really help your business? This is a PDF document – [...]