SEO

A Dubai retailer spends a year on content and backlinks and barely moves past page three. Nobody checked that half the site carries an accidental noindex tag. Here’s what a technical SEO audit actually covers, and why it’s the half of SEO that determines whether the rest works.

Roughly half of all Google searches in the UAE happen in Arabic, yet most business websites run an English-only SEO strategy with a machine-translated Arabic page bolted on. Here’s what bilingual SEO actually requires, and why the Arabic side of search is still wide open.

Type a question into ChatGPT and you get a direct answer, no blue links. Ask Google and an AI Overview often answers first. Here is what Generative Engine Optimisation actually means, and the concrete steps UAE businesses can take to get cited.

Nearly seven in ten small business owners expect SEO results within three months. The data tells a very different story. Here is the realistic month-by-month timeline for UAE businesses, what speeds it up, and the warning signs of a campaign that has genuinely stalled.

Ask around for SEO quotes in the UAE and the numbers make no sense together. One provider offers AED 1,000 a month, another opens at AED 20,000. Here is what SEO genuinely costs in 2026, what each tier buys, and how to judge whether it is worth it.