Local SEO
Show up on Google Maps and in "near me" searches in your cities, and turn those views into calls, WhatsApp messages and visits.
Is this for you?
A good fit if
- Clinics, service companies, showrooms, restaurants and branches
- You serve several cities or districts in Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Egypt
- Competitors with worse service show above you on Maps
Not the right fit if
- You have no physical location or service area
- You want fake reviews or business names stuffed with keywords
- You can't answer the phone or WhatsApp quickly
How I do it.
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Profile audit
I check your Google Business Profiles: category, details, duplicates and anything that could get them suspended.
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Location pages
City and district pages with real local detail, linked properly from the rest of the site.
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Listings and reviews
Consistent directory listings, and an honest way to ask happy customers for reviews.
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Track calls and messages
Calls, direction requests and WhatsApp clicks measured for each location.
What you get.
- Google Business Profile setup and fixes
- Plan for city and branch pages
- Directory listings cleaned up
- A simple process for asking for reviews
- Local schema markup
- Reports for each location
The details.
For a service business, three map results sit above everything else in Google. Getting into one of them is usually worth more than ranking first in the regular results below.
What the work covers
- Google Business Profile setup and choosing the right categories
- Why you do or don’t show in the map results: distance, prominence and relevance
- Pages for each location and service area
- Arabic local keyword research, including the names people really use for districts
- The same name, address and phone number across directories and regional listing sites
- Local listings suited to each market
- A plan for getting reviews, and how to reply to them
- LocalBusiness schema markup
- Site structure for businesses with several branches
- Local link building
- Competitor analysis in the map results, which work differently from regular results
What’s different in this region
Addresses aren’t standard
In much of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, people give directions by district and landmark. Keeping your details consistent means choosing one format and sticking to it everywhere.
People search in both languages
People look for a clinic in Cairo in Arabic and in English, sometimes typing Arabic in Latin letters. Your profile and pages need to cover all of it.
Reviews count for a lot
The number of reviews and how recent they are have a strong effect on map visibility here, and replying to them matters more than most businesses think.
WhatsApp is where people get in touch
Map listings that send people to WhatsApp convert better than ones that send them to a form or a switchboard. Track it on purpose, or it disappears from your reports.
I cover local SEO in three markets: SEO in Egypt, SEO in Saudi Arabia and SEO in the UAE, including Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. Each page explains how search works in that market.
In their words.
Clients asked not to be named. Each quote links to the case study with the numbers behind it.
See the numbers (Manager, services company, Saudi Arabia)We started with almost no visits from Google. Now people find us every month when they search for our services.
See the numbers (Team lead, events and culture site, Egypt)Our event month brought more than 58 thousand visits from Google, and the site kept 9 to 11 thousand a month after the event.
See the numbers (Founder, online bookstore, Egypt)We moved up in Google, and more of the people who see us now click. Our summer visits beat last year's.
Common questions.
Do you handle multiple branches?
Yes. With several branches, getting the structure right matters even more.
Can you remove bad reviews?
Only the ones that break Google's rules. For the rest, we plan good replies and get more real reviews.
Does local SEO work for Arabic searches?
Yes, and local searches in Arabic often have less competition. I cover both languages.
Your next move.
Tell me where things are now and where you want them to be. I reply within one business day, in Arabic or English. If I'm not the right person for it, I'll say so.