SEO services

People do not search in the Arabic you write in

A company writes "air conditioning maintenance services" while people type "fix aircon" or "aircon technician near me". The gap between corporate language and searcher language is the biggest reason Arabic sites fail to surface, and translating an English keyword list will never reveal it.

Method

What makes Arabic keyword research different

Details that simply do not exist in English.

Language and dialect

  • Terminology differing between Saudi Arabia and the UAE
  • Colloquial versus formal wording in actual searches
  • Latin-script spellings of common terms
  • Synonyms that all mean the same product
  • Common misspellings people genuinely search with

Technical and structural

  • Diacritics and hamza forms affecting matching
  • Alef maqsura and taa marbuta variations
  • Headings written in natural Arabic word order
  • Clear Latin URLs rather than encoded Arabic ones
  • Meta descriptions that read as proper Arabic sentences

Translation

Why translating the English keyword list does not work

Translating keywords gives you grammatically correct phrases nobody searches for. Worse, it hides the real demand: questions people ask in colloquial phrasing that appear in no tool unless you go looking in their language. We start by listening to the market and then build the list, not the other way around.

Where we actually gather terms

Your customers' questions in WhatsApp and calls
Search terms used inside your own site
Autocomplete suggestions in the search engine
Questions asked in forums and groups
The competitors already ranking above you
Product wording used in local marketplaces

Sources

Where the keywords genuinely come from

Three sources no tool contains.

Your own customer conversations

The questions arriving on WhatsApp and by phone, written in their real form, the most accurate source you hold.

Search engine suggestions

What autocomplete offers while typing, a direct reflection of what people write rather than what anyone assumes.

Common misspellings

Forms without hamza or with substituted letters, whose search volume is larger than most marketers expect.

Questions

About Arabic optimisation

Should we target formal or colloquial Arabic?
Both, depending on the page type. A service page targets the formal term, while an article targets the phrasing people actually type into search.
Does the Saudi market differ from the UAE?
Yes, in terminology and in the share of searching done in English. We build a list per market you target rather than one list assuming the Gulf is homogeneous.
We have an English site and want to add Arabic.
We do not translate the pages. We build the Arabic version on independent Arabic research, which often reveals pages you need in Arabic that have no English equivalent.

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Tell us about your project

Send us two lines about what you need on WhatsApp. We reply, book a short scoping call, then send a written plan with cost and timeline before you commit to anything.