About This Service
Arabic SEO (MSA + Gulf Dialect) — Rank in Arabic Search Across the UAE & GCC
Arabic SEO opens a market most of your competitors ignore. A large share of UAE and GCC users search in Arabic, yet most local sites are English-only or rely on broken machine translation. I build genuine Arabic SEO using both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) for formal, high-intent queries and Gulf (Khaleeji) dialect for the conversational, voice and 'near me' searches real Emirati and Gulf users type and speak.
This covers Arabic keyword research in MSA and Gulf dialect, native Arabic on-page copy (not translated English), RTL and right-to-left technical setup, correct hreflang ar-AE / en-AE, Arabic meta tags and slugs, and Arabic structured data. I handle diacritics, transliteration variants, and the singular/dual/plural and gender forms that trip up automated tools.
The outcome: Arabic pages that read natively, rank for Arabic keywords across the UAE and GCC, and capture high-intent local traffic your English-only competitors can't reach.
What's included
- Arabic keyword research — MSA and Gulf-dialect keywords, including transliteration and diacritic variants.
- Native Arabic copy — On-page content written by an Arabic speaker, not machine-translated.
- RTL & technical setup — Right-to-left rendering, Arabic slugs, meta tags and encoding handled correctly.
- hreflang ar-AE / en-AE — Correct bilingual hreflang so Google serves the right language version.
- Arabic structured data — JSON-LD localised for Arabic pages and Rich Results.
- Dialect targeting — Gulf-dialect phrasing for voice and conversational local search.
How it works
- 1Arabic audit & research
I assess your current Arabic presence and build an MSA + Gulf keyword map.
- 2Write & localise
Native Arabic on-page copy, meta tags, slugs and structured data.
- 3Technical RTL setup
hreflang, RTL rendering and encoding fixed across the Arabic site.
- 4Review & track
Arabic rank tracking and refinement over the 30-day cycle.
Why work with me
| With me | Typical agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Native Arabic, not machine translation | ||
| Gulf (Khaleeji) dialect targeting | MSA only at best | |
| RTL + hreflang handled correctly | Often broken | |
| Arabic structured data | Rarely |