Roxana Stingu
Head of Search & SEO at Alamy
Reading, United Kingdom · Romanian
Roxana Stingu is Head of Search & SEO at Alamy, the stock image and video marketplace, where she leads technical SEO across the company’s enterprise properties and owns the internal search engine that surfaces relevance for its vast asset library.
She has worked in digital marketing since 2006, with most of that career spent in technical SEO. Her focus sits at the intersection of image SEO, ecommerce site search, and embedding-based relevance, and her recent public work has explored how modern search engines use embeddings to evaluate content.
She is a recognised voice and mentor in the SEO community, speaking regularly at industry conferences and contributing to its body of published reference work.
Key facts about Roxana Stingu
- Runs both external SEO and Alamy's internal search engine across more than 350 million assets.
- Co-author of Blue Array's In-House SEO Success (first and second editions) and a contributor to Majestic's SEO in 2022.
- Speaks at BrightonSEO, WTSFest, the Tech SEO Summit, DMLA, and SEO Charity conferences; was a featured speaker at Tech SEO Summit 2025.
- Niche expertise in image metadata (IPTC), structured data, and how Google surfaces image licensing and copyright information in search.
- Studied Computer Science at university before moving into search.
- Romanian, based in Reading, United Kingdom.
- Spoke at SEO for Paws in March 2025 and September 2025.
What Roxana Stingu is famous for
Roxana is the go-to expert for image SEO and enterprise site search at scale, proving at Alamy that watermarked stock photos can rank competitively in Google Image Search when paired with the right metadata and context.
Notable work
- Book chapter: In-House SEO Success (Blue Array)
- Talk: Tech SEO Summit 2025 speaker
- Interview: Women in Tech SEO interview
