Dubai First SEO

Resarch of user behaviour in UAE

- A Google Consumer Study shows interesting facts about online behavior in the UAE:

1) Search engines are the most used source of online research information (81% of respondents) with Manufacturer websites (49%), and Directories and local listings (27%) trailing behind.

We have launched a1974.com - a global online marketing directory. You can ad your links here!

We decided to make a directory strictly for online marketing resources. So from now on you will be able to find all those usefull websites on www.a1974.com. We have started out with a couple of quite usefull links like Alexa.com Siteinfo, where you can type in any domain in the world and get a pretty decent idea about how used the website is, and where the websites users come from. This is very handy when you do online media buying yourself.

Feel free to ad links to the directory and even ad your own homepage or blog if it is relevant for online marketing. You can get a free lifetime listing if you link back to the directory from your site.

The directory is optimised for maximum SEO effect for the sites listed, so go knock yourself out with a little extra link juice. The directory is not only for Dubai or UAE but global.

SEO in Dubai - could it be useful to you?

Here is how you find out if you need SEO:

1. Which are the goods / services you sell?
2. Search on Google, to see where your webpage is appearing in the organic results
3. Are you amongst the first 5 results that Google displays? If not you could probably have great benefit of a thorough SEO job on your website

Reason is – most people just see the first page on Google. Majority of these find their solution on the first half og page 1. Therefore SEO can help you get more potential clients if you are not already right up there where most eyes are concentrated.

This is the same for SEO in Dubai as for everywhere else.

Internet usage has seasons

Like all media Internet has seasonality. This means that search engines and SEM and SEO campaigns experience seasonality.

In Europe Internet has far higher usage in January-February and again in September-November. Holiday season with Christmas in December and Summer with nice weather and holidays, gives less media consumption and Internet usage the rest of the year.

Therefore don’t expect your SEO and SEM/Adwords campaigns to deliver massively when people are busy with holidays like Christmas, Easter, Eid or Ramadan. Or if the weather is straight out great making people want to spend more of their time outside.

Seasonality of course has different patterns in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and UAE than in Europe or USA.

In the period 1st – 17th of May please call 0098 937 812 7290 or use the e-mail on our contact page.

Dubai Marina with Jumeirah Beach Residence and Palm Jumeirah in the back ground has become a favourite place to live for expats in Dubai.

Just a quick “heads up” on the real estate market outside the SEO and SEM world in Dubai and UAE.

The real estate market continues to fall in Dubai and the rest of the UAE. The main cause currently is the banking sectors unwillingness to lend money to people that wants to buy real estate. The effect right now is dramatically lower prices than the 2008 summer. Many places prices have actually dropped 50%. Projects that are not close to finished have fallen even further due to insecurity about their true handover date.

This actually creates a lot of bargains in the market, where people with cash really can pick up good deals. Deals that will increase in value once the lending comes back to the banking sector in full force.

Two of the biggest real estate agents in Dubai are Better Homes and Premier Real Estate.