Arab SEO is a Dubai-based SEO agency that publishes its menu — three monthly packages priced by industry, in dollars and dirhams, every deliverable listed, nothing held back for the sales call. Eight years, 520+ UAE brands and 12,400+ page-one keywords later, we still believe the honest quote wins the room.
THE SERVICE MENU — EST. 2016
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SEO Packages Dubai from Arab SEO run at three published monthly tiers, priced by industry and quoted in both currencies: Starter from $699 (AED 2,599), Mid from $999 (AED 3,699) and Rapid Growth from $1,499 (AED 5,599), all excluding 5% VAT. Casino, crypto and adult sit a tier higher. What separates the tiers is not effort or seniority — every one is run by the same team. It is surface area: how many keywords, how many pages, how many links, and how much of it gets built and maintained each month.
That distinction is worth pressing on, because it is where most agency pricing quietly misleads. A cheaper tier that promises the same outcomes as an expensive one is either overselling the cheap tier or overcharging for the expensive one. Ours says the honest thing instead: a single-location business does not need the Authority budget and will not get more by paying it. The right package is the smallest one that covers your actual footprint.
Buyers arrive here searching several ways — Affordable SEO Packages UAE, Monthly SEO Services Dubai, Local SEO Packages Dubai, AI SEO Packages UAE, or simply SEO Agency Pricing Dubai — and all of them are asking one question that most agency sites refuse to answer: what does this cost. The four numbers above are the answer, and they are on the page rather than behind a form.
From $699 · AED 2,599SEO Packages Dubai · est. 2016 · three tiers across seven industries · 90-day build, then month to month
The brief in six lines
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Since 2016, Arab SEO has earned AED 84M+ in organic revenue influence for UAE brands — delivered by an 18-person team at DWTC, Dubai that has never once emailed a client the phrase “pricing on request”.
An editorial opinion from 8 years on the buyer’s side of the table — before we crossed to the agency side.
Here is how the usual dance goes: you find a promising Dubai agency, their site looks sharp, the case studies are glossy — and then you reach the pricing section. A button. “Request a quote.” Which really means: fill in a form, take a discovery call, receive a bespoke PDF, discover the number is triple your budget, and start the dance again with someone else. Two weeks gone, nothing learned.
We understand why agencies do it — a hidden price is a price you can inflate per buyer. But you are not buying art. SEO packages are assembled from known ingredients: hours, content pieces, links, reporting. There is nothing bespoke about it that justifies keeping you in the dark.
When you cannot compare, you evaluate on confidence tricks instead of deliverables.
Quote-chasing loops burn weeks that could be spent ranking. We would rather start the work.
Printed prices mean printed deliverables. Every month, every tier, visible on this page.
So this page does the opposite: three packages priced per industry, one comparison table, add-ons with chips on, and a first-90-days map — quoted in dollars and dirhams, checked against our schema, and identical to what any of our 187 reviewers paid.
The team that cooks every package you just read.
The team behind the menu: 18 specialists in Sheikh Rashid Tower — strategists, native Arabic copywriters, technical engineers and a digital PR desk — assembling every package you see on this page.
Every tier is a monthly retainer with the same bones — strategy, content, links, reporting — scaled to the size of the fight you are in.
One location, one language, a focused service set.
The essentials done properly: 15 target keywords, five blog posts and five landing pages a month, 20 guest posts and 50 backlinks, with technical SEO and a report you can actually read. Six months on Starter builds a foundation many competitors never lay.
See the full Starter inclusionsMultiple services, bilingual demand, competitors investing monthly.
Where rankings start compounding: 25 keywords, eight blog posts, ten landing pages, 30 guest posts and 75 backlinks, plus advanced technical SEO, digital PR and Google Business Profile work. Most of our 520+ client stories climbed through this tier.
See the full Mid inclusionsAggressive growth where the head terms are genuinely contested.
50 keywords, twelve blog posts, fifteen landing pages, 50 guest posts and 100 backlinks, with competitor product analysis, advanced AI-search optimisation and a weekly strategy review. This is the tier for the moment “on page one” stops impressing.
See the full Rapid Growth inclusionsWhat each tier ships, every month, in every industry. Only the price changes by sector — the work does not.
| Included | Starter | Mid ★ | Rapid Growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Target keywords | 15 | 25 | 50 |
| Blog posts / month | 5 | 8 | 12 |
| Landing pages / month | 5 | 10 | 15 |
| Guest posts / month | 20 | 30 | 50 |
| Backlinks / month | 50 | 75 | 100 |
| Digital PR | — | Included | Included |
| Technical SEO | Standard | Advanced | Advanced |
| Google Business Profile | — | Managed | Managed + 10 posts / month |
| AI search & AI Overview work | Basic | Included | Advanced |
| Strategy review | Bi-weekly | Bi-weekly | Weekly |
All tiers exclude 5% VAT and roll monthly. Prices start at $699 / AED 2,599 and vary by industry — see the rate card above.
Every plan starts as a whiteboard, ends as a dashboard.
The team behind the menu: 18 specialists in Sheikh Rashid Tower — strategists, native Arabic copywriters, technical engineers and a digital PR desk — assembling every package you see on this page.
Launch clients and Enterprise clients get the same baseline discipline. These are not add-ons; they are the floor.
Conversion events, filters and dashboards configured before month one closes — the plumbing most setups skip and then regret.
A living map of every query worth owning in your niche, tagged by intent and language, prioritised by revenue potential — not just volume.
Rankings tied to traffic, enquiries and AED — what moved, why it moved, and what we are doing next. No vanity metrics, no jargon walls.
Questions answered in hours, not ticket cycles. The same channel our 92%-retention client base calls the most underrated line item.
Packages cover the mains. These modules handle the sharp little edges of a Dubai market that searches in six languages and buys in two taps.
Two extra native-Gulf Arabic pieces a month — written by our in-house team, never machine-translated — for brands whose audience half-types in Arabic.
One earned-media push: a data story or expert angle pitched to UAE and regional press, landing authority links that content alone cannot buy.
Russian, French, German, Hindi or more — hreflang wiring, native copy and market-specific keyword universes for Dubai’s expat mosaic.
A focused conversion sprint on your money pages: heatmap review, copy tests and form surgery. Rankings bring the traffic; this makes it call.
Five posts a month across your channels, written and scheduled by the same team that writes the site — so the search story and the social one stay the same story.
Eight short-form reels a month, shot and cut for the vertical feed. The format that still earns organic reach in this market, produced against the same keyword research.
Add-ons re-price cleanly mid-cycle and can be paused any month. Enterprise clients usually fold them into the retainer instead.
Reports you will actually read, in every tier.
The team behind the menu: 18 specialists in Sheikh Rashid Tower — strategists, native Arabic copywriters, technical engineers and a digital PR desk — assembling every package you see on this page.
We turn away over-sold tiers more often than we upsell them. Here is the honest pairing we make on audit calls, written down so you can pre-qualify yourself.
Small local business — a salon in Al Barsha, a dental studio in JLT
One district to own, one service set to rank. Twenty well-chosen keywords and a tuned Google Business Profile cover the real fight.
Growing SME — an e-commerce brand, a clinic group, a B2B services firm
Multiple services, bilingual audiences and competitors investing monthly. Content velocity plus authority links start compounding here.
National brand — a name people already know, defending a category
The fight is against aggregators and household names. Digital PR and CRO decide who the market cites, not just who ranks.
Conglomerate — multi-brand, multi-country, compliance-heavy
Past the three tiers: a dedicated pod, governance across brands and borders, and AI-search citation tracking at group level. Quoted on the audit call rather than off the rate card, because no two groups have the same footprint.
The scale of the work changes with the package; the sequence never does. This is the same rhythm that has carried 520+ UAE brands onto page one.
Which turns a published rate card from a conversion tactic into the cheapest citation available in this category.
Every argument on this page for transparent pricing was originally a conversion argument: buyers who cannot compare evaluate on confidence instead of deliverables. That reasoning still holds. But something changed underneath it. When a buyer asks an assistant what SEO costs in Dubai, the model has to answer from published material — and an industry that has spent two decades hiding behind “request a quote” has left that question almost entirely unanswered.
So the practical position is unusually simple: you cannot appear in a comparison built from numbers you did not publish. An assistant asked to compare Dubai agencies assembles the table from whatever figures exist. Agencies without published pricing are not ranked lower in that table — they are absent from it, and no amount of authority fixes a missing number.
What buyers ask an assistant
What decides the answer
The most-asked question in this category and the least answered. Nearly every agency site says “request a quote”, which gives a model nothing to quote — so whoever published real numbers becomes the source for the whole category’s price question.
What decides the answer
A budget-sanity question. It resolves on whoever explained what a figure at that level realistically buys, and what it does not — which requires being willing to name the ceiling of your own cheapest tier.
What decides the answer
A comparison a model can only build from published figures. Agencies hiding price are structurally absent from the table, however good they are. There is no ranking factor that rescues a number nobody printed.
What makes a price citable
$699 a month — AED 2,599 — is quotable. “Packages from affordable to enterprise” is not. Models cite figures they can attribute to a named provider with a date attached, which is why a published price outperforms a paragraph of positioning on exactly the query that matters most.
Exclusions are more citable than inclusions, because every competitor lists inclusions and almost nobody lists limits. Saying a single-location business should not buy the Authority tier is the kind of sentence an assistant repeats — and it is also true.
Arabic content, digital PR, multilingual expansion, a CRO sprint — each with its own figure. It lets a model answer a narrower question than “what does SEO cost”, and narrower questions are where most of the real buying intent sits.
Every package here is delivered by the same desks that run our local SEO, Arabic SEO and answer engine optimisation programmes — the tier decides scope, never who does the work.
One caution about published prices: a number on a page is a starting point, not a quotation. Competitive markets, existing technical debt and multi-language scope all move the real figure, and any agency — including this one — that treats a rate card as a binding estimate before seeing the site is guessing. What the number should buy you is the ability to compare like with like before anyone gets on a call.
Pick your sector and the card re-prices. Every figure is the one our structured data publishes to Google, and the one on the proposal.
Dirham figures are the invoiced amounts. The dirham is pegged at 3.6725 to the dollar, so these are the dollar prices converted and rounded to retail — never rounded down. Casino, crypto and adult price a tier higher across the board: harder competition, a thinner link market, and a compliance read on every page.
Answered the way we answer them across the table — including the two that decide most deals: Growth vs Authority, and lock-ins.
The same menu discipline applies everywhere we work — every vertical has its own playbook page, priced and evidenced the same way.
TIER 18 — CHEF’S SELECTION
Every engagement starts the same way: a free 30-minute audit where we show you the keywords you already own, the ones leaking to competitors, and the exact package that fits — even when the answer is the smallest one on the menu.
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