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Abby Webb

Strategic Director

Abby Webb

Abby helps organisations improve search visibility, generate demand and understand the commercial impact of their marketing activity.

Since 2015, she has worked across energy, fintech, legal services, travel, entertainment, food and beverage, and charity sectors, developing strategies that combine search, content, paid media and analytics to support business growth.

With expertise spanning organic and paid search, Abby helps organisations identify growth opportunities while providing greater clarity around marketing performance and return on investment. She is focused on how changing search behaviour is reshaping the role of websites, content and digital discovery.

Her work has been featured by Moz and PPC Hero, and she has appeared as a guest expert on the SEO Office Hours podcast to discuss search, analytics and content strategy. She is a member of ProCopywriters and Women in Tech SEO.

Here’s my recommended reading

Digital marketing for energy companies: How to reach your audience online

The energy sector includes a broad range of organisations, from renewable energy developers and energy infrastructure providers to technology businesses, utilities and consumer-facing suppliers. Each operates in a complex market, often with multiple audiences, long buying journeys and products that can be difficult to explain. Effective energy marketing therefore requires more than promoting individual products […]

What Google’s latest AI search guidance really means for marketers

The search landscape is shifting quickly, with features, user behaviour and industry commentary updating almost every day. Google is obviously central to that shift towards AI search, as it continues encouraging users towards generative AI experiences through features like AI Overviews and AI Mode. That makes its “Guide to Optimising for Generative AI Features on […]

Do organisations need an AI content policy?

AI content policies are starting to show up in more places, especially among publishers, broadcasters and other editorial-led organisations. With AI playing a much larger role in how a lot of content gets produced, these policies are no surprise. The question I’m asking isn’t whether organisations are using AI in content creation. Most already are, […]

How to write content for AI Overviews

Love it or hate it, everyone’s seen it.  Google’s AI Overviews are changing the way your search results appear. Now, AI-generated summaries will often answer user questions before the usual list of site links we’ve come to expect. In fact, 47% of Google Search results now include an AI Overview – at least, according to AI […]

How to track your marketing campaigns using UTM parameters

This short guide will teach you how to track your marketing campaigns using UTM parameters.  Also referred to as a custom URL, a UTM tag is a customised snippet of text (called a parameter) that is added at the end of a website address. This UTM tag allows you to track and identify the traffic […]

How to use (& not to use) Google Ads’ generative AI

AI has taken the world of digital marketing by storm. We’ve seen AI being used in Google Analytics, it’s changing the way we approach content marketing and what we post on social media. Now, it’s the turn of Google Ads. The platform already includes a range of AI features and, at Google Marketing Live, recently […]

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Improving access to support for people in crisis

Over 700,000 people die by suicide every year according to the World Health Organisation. For every death there are an estimated twenty attempted suicides. People in need require easy access to support – in their timezone and language – so that they can be listened to in confidence and without prejudice as soon as possible.  […]

E-E-A-T: What Google’s new guidelines mean for search marketing

E-A-T: expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. Until the end of last year, these were the three criteria which Google used to assess the quality of a webpage. In December 2022, that changed. Now, Google talks about “E-E-A-T”: Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness. On the surface, it might not be clear just what this change means and […]