Multilingual SEO Services in Dubai.

For most Dubai businesses: Arabic first, then Hindi or Urdu, then Tagalog. Arabic has the widest gap between demand and competition on google.ae. But it depends who buys from you — a Business Bay clinic might start with Urdu, a recruitment firm with Tagalog. We map your actual customer base before recommending a sequence, not after.

Never for anything that ships. We may use machine output internally to speed up research, but every published word is written by a native speaker and reviewed by a second native editor. Machine translation misses idiom, register and intent — and search engines are increasingly good at noticing. Our no-MT guarantee sits in the contract, not just the pitch.

Hreflang is an annotation that tells Google which language-and-region version of a page to show to which user. Every version declares its siblings, including itself, and the tags must be reciprocal. Done right, an Arabic speaker in Dubai sees your Arabic page and crawlers understand exactly where each variant belongs. We audit and maintain these mappings every month.

Yes — it is our founding specialty. That means dir="rtl" applied correctly, mirrored layouts built with logical CSS properties, Reem Kufi-compatible typography, Arabic metadata and schema, and forms that accept Arabic-script names without breaking. Most "Arabic versions" on UAE websites are cosmetic. Ours are engineered, and the difference shows in engagement and rankings.

Our native writer network — screened professionals in each language, briefed on your tone and market. The pipeline runs: English brief, native draft, native editor QA, your review, then publish. You approve the voice before it represents your brand. For regulated industries such as healthcare and finance, we add a compliance review step before anything goes live.

Usually the opposite. Non-English SERPs in the UAE are dramatically less contested, so well-built pages often rank within eight to twelve weeks versus four to six months for English. The real bottleneck is internal — approval cycles and CMS work — not Google. We sequence launches so your first language shows movement while the next one is in production.

That is exactly how our plans work. Core covers two languages, Growth covers four, and Regional covers six or more — mixed however suits your market. Arabic and Hindi share research infrastructure; Tagalog runs on a separate writer desk. You get one strategist, one report and one invoice, with per-language performance broken out clearly every month.

Every language gets its own Search Console filters, GA4 content grouping and lead-source tagging, so enquiries are attributed by language at the source. Monthly reports show rankings, traffic, leads and cost-per-lead for each language against English benchmarks. You see exactly what Arabic earns versus what it costs, and you can reallocate budget between languages quarterly.

Three monthly retainers in dirhams: AED 4,900 for two languages with four localized pages a month, AED 8,900 for four languages with eight pages plus digital PR per market, and AED 14,500 for six or more languages with GCC expansion and a dedicated multilingual strategist. Each language also carries a one-time AED 2,500 setup — technical audit, native keyword universe, style guide and tone calibration. VAT is excluded, and you can swap one language for another at any quarterly review.

Multilingual SEO adds languages inside one market: a Dubai clinic serving Arabic, Urdu, Hindi and Tagalog speakers who all search on google.ae. International SEO adds markets: the same brand opening Saudi Arabia and Qatar, each with its own SERP, currency and competitors. In the Gulf they usually overlap, because Arabic for the UAE and Arabic for Saudi Arabia are one language across two countries — ar-AE and ar-SA need separate keyword sets and reciprocal annotations or Google collapses them.

No. Google treats genuine translations as alternates, not duplicates, provided hreflang declares the relationship reciprocally. The real risk is the opposite mistake: two pages in the same language for two regions — ar-AE and ar-SA — that say nearly identical things. Those do compete, which is why we rebuild keyword sets per market rather than copying an Arabic page across the Gulf and hoping the region code sorts it out.

Almost never. Subfolders on your existing domain — example.com/ar-ae/ — inherit the root domain authority from day one and keep one CMS, one analytics property and one team. Subdomains make sense when a legacy CMS cannot host a second locale or teams deploy independently. Country-code domains are for national brands with their own entity per market. We put the reasoning on record before anything is built, because structure is the most expensive decision to reverse.