Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Iraq

SEO for businesses in Iraq

Many companies in Iraq do not appear when people search for their own service, in Arabic or in English, and the offers they receive promise page one within weeks. We work the other way: we fix what stops Google reading your site, research Arabic and English searches separately, write pages that answer what people in Iraq actually type, and report every month on searches, visits and enquiries. Nobody controls positions on Google, so we do not promise one.

  • Blockers removed so Google can read you
  • Pages built on what Iraqis search
  • A complete Google Business Profile
  • A monthly report you can check
Price my SEO
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Do you know what people type to find a business like yours?

A site with visits
Send the address and your main services. We look at what Google already shows for you and quote for a monthly plan that builds on it.

Plan SEO for my site

New or rebuilt site
SEO is cheapest when it is built in from the start. We set up page structure, titles and language links while the site is being built.

Build SEO into my site

Arabic & English

Separate keyword research for each language

No promised rank

We never sell a ranking, and we say so in writing

Real service areas

City pages only where you actually serve customers

Since 2012

Websites and digital marketing for over a decade

Technical fixes, Arabic keywords, city pages and Maps

Most Iraqi sites we look at need some of all four. The order depends on what holds your site back most, and the plan says which comes first.

Technical fixes

Indexing, speed, broken links and language tags put right

Keyword research

Arabic and English searches mapped, one main term per page

Service and city pages

Pages for Baghdad, Erbil or Basra only if you serve there

Google maps optimization

Your Business Profile completed, with categories and hours

What SEO should change in your search presence

These seven changes are what we work towards. Search Console shows each one, so you do not have to take our word for it.
Ask to see them in the report.

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A month of SEO, from Search Console to report

The first steps happen once; from step four, the work repeats each month. We send updates by WhatsApp and email and go through the report on a video call.
No page text changes without your approval.

STEP 01. Search Console access

You add us as a user on Search Console and Analytics, or let us set them up in your name if they do not exist yet.

STEP 02. Technical review

We check which pages Google can and cannot read, speed on phones, broken links and how the Arabic and English versions are tied together.

STEP 03. Keyword map

Each Arabic and English search we target is assigned to one page, so your pages stop competing with each other.

STEP 04. Page fixes and new pages

We rewrite titles and weak sections, and draft new pages where a search has no page yet. You approve each text before it goes live.

STEP 05. Profile and links

We keep your Google Business Profile accurate and look for genuine mentions, such as suppliers, partners and directories you belong in.

STEP 06. Monthly report

You get searches, clicks and enquiries from organic visits, what we changed and what comes next month.

Why your pages appear but nobody clicks

Search Console often shows thousands of impressions and a handful of visits. These three causes are behind most of it.

Impressions, no clicks

People see the result and skip it.

  • Sign: high impressions, tiny click rate
  • Common cause: titles written for another query
  • What we do: titles rewritten for the real search query

Two pages for one search

Google keeps switching between them.

  • Sign: positions jump week to week
  • Common cause: a blog post and a service page overlap
  • What we do: one owner page, the other linked to it

Arabic pages left out

Only the English version shows.

  • Sign: Arabic queries show no result
  • Common cause: language tags missing or wrong
  • What we do: Arabic pages tagged and linked

Your Search Console, profile and content stay yours

Search work builds value over months, and that value must stay with your company. Every account is in your name, we join as a user, and every page we write belongs to you.

Stop at any time and keep everything.

  • Search Console held by your company
  • Analytics owned by you
  • Business Profile with you as owner
  • Our user access removable anytime

  • New pages are your property
  • Rewrites stay on your site
  • You read every draft first
  • No content hosted on our side

  • A change log you can read
  • All past reports kept for you
  • The search-term map is yours to keep
  • A clean handover if you leave

Work that helps SEO pay off

Each is a separate service with its own quote.

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The data behind our decisions

Google data

  • Live queries and pages from Search Console
  • Iraq search volumes from Keyword Planner
  • Business Profile insights for Maps

Site checks

  • Crawls that list errors and redirect chains
  • Google’s page speed tests on phones
  • Checks on hreflang and the preferred URL

Results

  • Organic sessions in Google Analytics
  • Forms, calls and WhatsApp as goals
  • No tool that needs your password
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Access and details we need

Five things let us start in the first week instead of waiting.

  • Google access: user rights on Search Console and Analytics, added from your account.
  • Site editing: an editor login, or the contact of whoever manages the site.
  • Cities served: the places where you really take customers, and where you do not.
  • Main services: the ones that earn most, so they get the first pages.
  • Approver: who signs off new Arabic and English text on the site.

Worked with an SEO company before? Share their last report.

Companies that have worked with our team

Most of these clients are outside Iraq, and not every one used our SEO service. We show them as part of our wider client record.

Which businesses get most from search, and what they target

Examples of the searches each sector usually goes after. Your own data decides the final list.

Clinics and doctors: specialty plus city

Real estate: compound and project names

Restaurants: dish types and “near me” searches

Schools and institutes: courses and admission

Car services: repairs, parts and brands

Retail: Arabic spellings of brands and products

Engineering firms: services and project types

Travel: destinations, visas and packages

Languages, pages and competition: the SEO budget drivers

SEO in Iraq is priced very differently from one company to the next. Most of the difference comes from a few factors you can check.

Three parts an SEO offer should separate:

  • One-off fixes: the technical work at the start, priced on its own line.
  • Monthly work: content, profile, links and the report, with hours or outputs stated.
  • Writing: the number of pages written or rewritten per month, per language.

In your quote request, share your site address and the searches you care about, and we price the work around them.

Languages

Arabic and English each need research, titles and pages.

Pages

A ten-page site and a hundred-page site are different jobs.

Competition

A crowded search in Baghdad needs more work than a niche one.

Ranking promises

Packages that promise page one often rely on links Google penalises.

Message us on WhatsApp with the searches you want

Write to us on WhatsApp at +964 784 684 3068, or use the quote form. Send your site address and the searches you want to appear for, for example: “Here is our site; we want to appear for dental clinic Erbil.”

How to judge the SEO offers you get in Iraq

Run any SEO offer in Iraq through five checks: it must not promise positions; your company must own the content and the Google accounts; you should see a sample monthly report; the Arabic keyword research should be shown, not just mentioned; and links must not be bought. If you need calls this month, SEO is the wrong tool on its own; Google Ads can bring visits from the day they are approved, while search work builds.

If SEO is too slow for what you need now

  • Calls needed this month: Google search ads
  • Site breaks on phones: mobile optimisation first
  • No website yet: build one with SEO in place
  • An app that nobody finds in the store: ASO
  • Customers find you on Instagram, not Google: social media

Questions Iraqi companies ask about SEO

Direct answers on promises, timing, dialect, cities, links and reports.

Rarely, and not safely. Nobody controls Google’s order. Fast promises usually depend on bought links, which can get a site pushed down later.

Technical fixes can show in weeks once Google recrawls the site. New pages and stronger positions usually take several months, depending on competition.

Pages are written in Modern Standard Arabic. Where keyword research shows a common local spelling people type, such as كوكل, it can appear naturally in a heading or line.

Yes. SEO depends on where your customers are, not where we are. We work with companies across Iraq without a local office.

Only for cities you really serve, and only when each page can say something useful about that city. Copies with the city name swapped do more harm than good.

Through real relationships: suppliers, partners, associations, directories you belong in and useful guides people want to cite. We do not buy links.

No, we have no office in Iraq. We work with you by video call, WhatsApp and email, and walk through each monthly report on a call.

Not as part of SEO. We change titles, text, links and technical settings. If the design itself blocks search, we say so and quote for it separately.

Yes, where tracking allows: button clicks on your site and calls from your Business Profile are counted next to form enquiries.

Yes. Every page lives on your site and belongs to you, and the keyword map and past reports are handed over.

Partly. It adds your Google Business Profile, Maps and city searches to the usual work. Our blog has a guide on local SEO in Iraq.

Further reading on local search in Iraq

Articles from our blog on Google Maps, Arabic keywords and search in Iraq.