Finds the keywords that bring customers.
We identify the 30 to 100 search terms your buyers actually use, in English and Arabic, and check what Google shows for each one before we decide to target it.
I'm Divyu Sharma. I started Mediaupshift as a one-person SEO desk in Delhi in 2017 and opened our Dubai office in 2020. Today we are a senior team of twelve across both cities, and we have ranked more than 200 clients. I still review and sign off every account. When you hire me as your SEO expert in Dubai, you get me on every call and a senior team behind me. You do not get a founder on the sales call and a junior on the account.
Packages start at AED 1,990 a month. The full price list is on this page. Most SEO expert pages in Dubai make you ask for it.
We work with businesses in every part of Dubai.
SEO means making your website appear when people search on Google for what you sell. In practice, it comes down to five jobs.
We identify the 30 to 100 search terms your buyers actually use, in English and Arabic, and check what Google shows for each one before we decide to target it.
Broken pages, slow loading, duplicate titles, thin content. The audit comes first, and you get a clear list of what to fix, in order of impact.
Service pages, comparison pages and FAQs written around what people search for. Senior editors write them, in English and Arabic.
Mentions and partnerships with genuine UAE and GCC websites. No link farms, no bought packages. You see every link we earn.
Every month you see clicks, impressions and rankings from Google Search Console, with screenshots. Nothing is hidden behind an agency dashboard.
Send us your website address. I will look at it before we speak.
Brand names blurred per NDA · all numbers verifiable on call.
42 destination articles + 12 itinerary landing pages. Targeted long-tail UAE travel intent. AI Overview pickup on 18 queries.
Shopify migration + 18 buying-guide articles (luxury watch verticals). Schema-rich PDPs. Indexed in 4-7 days each.
180+ category and sub-category pages. Bilingual EN + AR. JSON-LD schema, FAQ blocks, dynamic title-tag templates.
Plus 60+ more Dubai clients across hospitality, real estate, F&B, healthcare, and B2B. See more on a discovery call →
There are three ways to buy SEO in Dubai. Each one suits a different size of business. Here is how they compare.
| Freelancer | SEO expert with a team (what we offer) | Full agency | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who you deal with | One person who does everything | A senior expert who runs your account personally, with a team behind them | An account manager. The work is done by a team you rarely meet |
| Best suited to | Small websites with a limited budget and one clear goal | Growing businesses that want senior attention and quick decisions | Large websites with hundreds of pages, several languages or PR needs |
| Typical cost in Dubai | AED 1,500 to 3,500 a month | AED 2,000 to 10,000 a month | AED 4,000 to 25,000+ a month |
| Main risk | Limited capacity. If that one person is unavailable, the work stops | Advisers who give advice but never deliver the work | Meeting a senior person on the sales call, then being handed to a junior |
In short: a small site with a small budget is fine with a freelancer. A very large site needs a full agency team. Most Dubai businesses sit in between. They want one senior person who owns their account and shows them results in their own Google Search Console data. That is what this page offers.
These are the same three packages as on our agency page, because the same team does the work. The difference is who you deal with: me on every strategy call, with Rohan handling the day-to-day. Every package is month to month with 30 days' notice. Growth and Authority ask for a three-month start, because SEO takes time to show results.
For local Dubai businesses ranking for 10-30 keywords.
For Dubai brands competing on 30-100 commercial keywords.
For Dubai market leaders building category authority.
Retainers billed monthly · 3-month minimum on Growth & Authority · Setup fee waived on first month · Pricing benchmarked against 2026 Dubai agency rates
This is what you should expect in the first month. If an SEO expert cannot show you these, ask why.
We connect to your Google Search Console and Analytics, crawl the whole website, and send you a one-page list of problems ranked by impact. Not a 40-page report.
A list of every search term we will target, what the searcher is looking for, which language it is in, and which page will rank for it. Arabic is researched separately, not translated.
We fix titles and internal links and improve the pages Google already ranks between positions 8 and 20, because those move fastest.
The first two pages are written or rebuilt. You approve them before they go live.
Completed properly, including Arabic details and special opening hours for Ramadan and Eid where they apply.
A Search Console report showing exactly where you started, so month two has a clear benchmark.
Around a third of searches in the UAE are in Arabic, and many people switch between languages in the same session. A translated English page rarely ranks in Arabic. Arabic needs its own keyword research and its own writing. See how we do Arabic SEO.
People search for "SEO company in Deira" or "clinic in Dubai Hills", and Google answers with a map. If your Google Business Profile is incomplete, no amount of blog content will fix that. See our local SEO service.
Ramadan, Eid, the summer slowdown and the busy final quarter all change how people search. Your content calendar, and your opening hours on Google, should reflect them.
Google now shows AI-generated answers above the normal results for some searches. When we checked on 23 September 2026, "best SEO agency Dubai" showed one and "SEO agency Dubai" did not. We optimise for AI answers where they appear, and for the map results where they do not. See how we measure AI citations.
Who will be on our monthly call? Ask for a name.
Can you show me a Google Search Console screenshot from a current client? A slide is not proof.
How do you handle Arabic? If the answer is "we translate", keep looking.
Can I see last month's link list for a client, with the website addresses?
What happens if I want to leave? The answer should be 30 days' notice, not a 12-month contract.
What will happen in the first 30 days? Compare the answer with the list above.
Read the Google reviews, then check that the reviewers are real people.
An experienced SEO consultant in Dubai usually charges between AED 2,000 and 6,000 a month. Agencies charge AED 4,000 to 25,000 or more. Our packages are AED 1,990, 4,990 and 9,990 a month, depending on how many keywords and pages you want to compete on. A one-off audit costs AED 2,500 to 5,000 in Dubai. Ours is free on the first call.
The best SEO expert is the one who shows you results in your own Google Search Console, tells you exactly who will do the work, and lets you leave with 30 days' notice. Those three things matter more than any name. We are happy to be judged on all three.
A mid-level SEO specialist in Dubai costs AED 8,000 to 15,000 a month in salary, before visa, insurance and software. That makes sense if search is your main sales channel and there is enough work for a full-time person. If not, a senior expert on a monthly retainer usually costs less and brings a whole team.
Quick improvements come in 4 to 8 weeks, from better titles, internal links and pages that already rank between positions 8 and 20. Competitive Dubai keywords take 4 to 9 months. Anyone who promises page one in 30 days is describing paid ads, not SEO.
No. Search is changing shape. There are now three places to appear: Google's normal results, the map results, and AI-generated answers such as Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT. The same foundations feed all three: clear pages, real expertise, and consistent business details. What has disappeared is the low-effort version of SEO.
It can write a draft. It cannot crawl your website, read your Search Console data, earn a link from another site, or know that people in Deira search in Arabic. We use AI for research and outlines. Senior editors write the pages, and every page passes AI-detection checks at 0% before it goes live.
We cover Dubai and Abu Dhabi from the Dubai office and Delhi NCR from the Delhi office. See SEO in Abu Dhabi and SEO expert in Delhi.
Send us your website address. Before the call I will look at your Search Console data (if you give access) or run a crawl of the site (if not), and we will go through the three things I would fix first. No slide deck and no pressure. If we are not the right fit, I will tell you who is.
Real reviews · Dubai clients
Verified reviews from clients we have shipped retainers for. Names real, words real, no edits. Average rating: 4.9 / 5 across 116 written client reviews. Also 4.9★ on Google.