Alan Webb is CEO of ABAKUS Internet Marketing, a professional search engine marketing company based in Hannover, Germany. Apart from offering search engine marketing services, the ABAKUS website has become a major resource on search engine marketing in the German language, with a large search engine optimization tutorial, SEM forum, SEM tools, popular newsletter and regularly updated SEM blog. The ABAKUS website (http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de) has recently been translated into english (http://www.abakus-internet-marketing.de/en) where it is fast becoming as popular a resource as the German pages.

Alan Webb has been involved professionally in search engine marketing for over 3 years, and is a former online marketing manager for a major German telecommunications copporation. ABAKUS Internet Marketing was founded in December 2002, and has many large profile international companies on its books.

Alan is also a respected writer of search engine marketing articles. Many of which have been published in major German and English speaking publications such as Darwinmag.com (english), Computerworld.com (english), Computerweekly.com (english), Marke-X (german). Alan has also been interviewed and mentioned in such publications as 'The Philadelphia Enquirer' (english), 'Tomorrow' magazine (German), 'Absatzwirtschaft' magazine (German).

Alan also moderates at major search engine marketing forums such as SEOChat.com and Searchguild.com, as well administrating one of Germanys largest and most active SEM forums on the ABAKUS website.

Alan is English and lives and works with Hannover with his wife Ulli and daughter Alison.