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Successful Content Strategy for Middle Eastern Businesses
Elliott Goodell edited this page 2025-09-10 22:17:49 +02:00

A few weeks ago, a company director asked me why his blog posts weren't creating any inquiries. After analyzing his publishing plan, I found he was making the same errors I see many Saudi businesses commit.

Recently, a shop network invested over 200,000 SAR in traditional best Digital Marketing agency in Saudi Arabia with underwhelming returns. After shifting just 30% of that investment to mobile marketing, they experienced a 328% growth in store visits.

Successful methods included:

  • Showcasing collective advantages rather than personal benefits
  • Adding appropriate faith elements where appropriate
  • Adjusting deal phrasing to correspond to Saudi social expectations
  • Developing distinct creative alternatives for diverse locations within the Kingdom

Recently, my friend's e-commerce store was barely surviving in search results regardless of offering outstanding products. After applying the techniques I'm about to describe, his unpaid visitors increased by 164% in just 60 days.

Essential delivery findings included:

  • Reduced bidding during worship moments with stable conversion rates
  • Higher response on non-workdays notably after evening prayers
  • Seasonal variations requiring investment changes during Ramadan
  • Academic calendar impacts on particular industries

Essential techniques included:

  • Collaborating with Saudi local users to discover genuine lookup habits
  • Investigating local competitors for query approaches
  • Building a dual-language query framework to engage the complete range of consumers
  • Using Saudi Arabic dialect rather than standard Arabic

A beverage company in Riyadh achieved a forty-two percent improvement in store visits by launching location-based handheld campaigns that reached consumers within a 2-kilometer radius of their locations.

A few days ago, a eatery manager in Riyadh complained that his establishment wasn't appearing in Google results despite being highly rated by customers. This is a frequent problem I see with Saudi establishments throughout the Kingdom.

A few weeks ago, a retail client approached me after spending over 250,000 SAR on unsuccessful paid search campaigns. After restructuring their methodology, we generated a five hundred thirty-seven percent increase in return on ad spend.

Through extensive testing for a cuisine platform company, we found that promotions presented between evening hours substantially outperformed those shown during standard optimal periods, generating 163% greater sales.

For a travel client, we found that direct translation of their foreign queries generated exceptionally wasteful costs. After implementing a regionally-specific keyword approach, their conversion expense reduced by over seventy percent.

For a banking client, we created a website that carefully integrated global practices with regionally significant design elements. This technique enhanced their audience credibility by nearly one hundred percent and conversions by seventy-four percent.

For a premium shopping client, we created a complex Arabic-English system that seamlessly adapted layout, menus, and information presentation based on the selected language. This strategy enhanced their visitor interaction by one hundred forty-three percent.

Essential features included:

  • Reversed layouts for right-to-left scanning
  • Tongue-appropriate typography
  • Locally appropriate graphics for each language version
  • Uniform identity presentation across dual languages