№ 18 · Builders & Specialists
Areej AbuAli
Founder, Women in Tech SEO
Changed who gets to be on the stage.
Areej AbuAli founded Women in Tech SEO in 2019. It has since grown into one of the largest and most active professional communities in search, with a jobs board, mentoring programme, conference series and a Slack workspace that functions as a genuine day-to-day resource.
Dossier
- Role
- Founder, Women in Tech SEO
- Known for
- Built the industry's largest support network
- Active since
- 2019
- Based
- United Kingdom
- Organisation
- Women in Tech SEO
- Disciplines
- Organic StrategyCommunity BuildingTechnical SEO
- Notable work
- Women in Tech SEO
Community as infrastructure
Industry communities usually plateau as networking groups. WTS did not — it built the mechanisms that actually change career trajectories: structured mentoring, a speaker pipeline into major conferences, and salary-transparent job listings.
Consulting practice
Alongside the community she works as an SEO strategist helping brands grow organic presence, and is a familiar name on the BrightonSEO and MozCon speaker lists.