The Short Version
I run SEO for businesses in Lebanon and the GCC — local SEO, technical foundations, English and Arabic content, and AI search optimisation — as the developer, so fixes get implemented, not emailed as recommendations.
One person: audit, fix, content, citations, report.
Where Customers Look
Four Places Your Business Has to Show Up in 2026
Search stopped being one list of blue links. Customers in Beirut and the Gulf now find businesses in four different places — and each one is won differently.
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The Google map pack.
For "near me" and "in Beirut" searches, the three map results take most of the clicks. Won with a complete Google Business Profile, genuine reviews and consistent citations — the local SEO layer.
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Google's organic results.
Won with a technically sound site — speed, structure, schema — and content that answers what your customers actually type. This is the classic SEO work, done properly.
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AI answers — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity.
A growing share of customers ask an assistant instead of searching, and get three names in the answer. Being one of them takes a machine-readable identity, citations on sites AI trusts, and answer-first content.
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Arabic search.
Most Lebanese and GCC businesses compete only in English, which leaves Arabic queries wide open. Arabic keywords and properly written RTL content reach an audience your competitors ignore.
You can't be hired if you can't be found.
The best website in Beirut earns nothing on page four — or outside the AI answer. Visibility is the multiplier on everything else.
The Work
What the SEO Work Actually Covers
Speed, clean structure, schema markup, crawlability and Core Web Vitals — fixed directly in the code, because I'm the developer, not a consultant sending a PDF.
Google Business Profile built out properly, review strategy, consistent citations and local landing pages — the work that wins the Beirut map pack.
Research into what your customers actually type, then pages and articles written to answer it — in English, Arabic or both.
Entity consistency, structured data, citations on the platforms AI models trust, and answer-first content — so ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity can name your business.
Arabic keyword research and content with proper right-to-left handling — visibility in the language half your market searches in.
A monthly report in plain language: rankings, traffic, enquiries, and what happens next — measured in Search Console, not vanity dashboards.
Nothing Hidden
The Method Is Public. Read It Before You Hire Anyone.
Most SEO providers sell a black box. I published the playbook — the same one I run for clients and on this website. Read both guides, then decide whether you want to do it yourself or have me run it.
Guide 01 · Google
SEO in Lebanon and the GCC: How to Rank on Google in 2026
Keyword research, local SEO, Arabic content and link building — the full step-by-step for this market.
Guide 02 · AI Search
AI Search Optimization in Lebanon and the GCC: The 2026 Playbook
How to get your business named by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity — entity, citations and answer-first content.
And this website is the working proof: run any page here through Google's Rich Results Test, check the schema, search the brand — everything recommended in the guides is implemented on the site you're reading.
How We Work
Three Ways to Engage
SEO is scoped to your market, competition and goals, so campaigns are quoted after the free review — always a fixed monthly fee in USD, agreed up front, with no lock-in contracts.
Cost moves with your market's competitiveness, how many keywords and locations you're targeting, content volume, and whether Arabic is included. The review of your current site is free and tells you exactly where you stand.
Request the Free ReviewProcess
From Audit to Rankings
Five stages, measured monthly, with honest timelines — SEO that promises results in thirty days is selling something that doesn't exist.
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Audit
Output — free review
Where you rank today, what's technically broken, what competitors are doing, and whether AI engines know you exist — in plain language.
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Foundation
Output — technical fixes, live
Speed, structure, schema, Google Business Profile and Search Console — implemented directly, because the person doing the SEO can edit the code.
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Content
Output — pages that answer
Service pages and articles built around what your customers type — answer-first, in English and Arabic where it matters.
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Authority
Output — citations & reviews
Consistent listings on the directories Google and AI models trust, a genuine review pipeline, and links from real work.
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Report & Iterate
Output — monthly scoreboard
Rankings, traffic and enquiries from Search Console — plus a monthly check of what ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity say about you. What works gets more; what doesn't gets cut.
FAQ
SEO Services in Lebanon — Frequently Asked Questions
SEO campaigns are quoted after a free review, because the honest price depends on your market's competitiveness, the keywords you're targeting and whether Arabic content is included. Every campaign runs on a fixed monthly fee in USD agreed up front, month to month, with no lock-in contracts.
Expect 3 to 6 months for consistent movement on competitive keywords, with local SEO and technical fixes often showing earlier. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is selling something that doesn't exist — you get honest timelines and a monthly report showing exactly where things stand.
No — and nobody honest does, because Google's results aren't for sale. What I guarantee is the work: technical fixes implemented, content published, citations built, and a transparent monthly report. Rankings follow the work; a "guaranteed #1" pitch is the biggest red flag in this industry.
It's the work of getting your business named when customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for a recommendation. It comes down to three things: a consistent, machine-readable identity for your business (structured data), citations on the third-party platforms AI models trust, and content written to answer questions directly. I published the full approach in my AI search playbook — and run it for clients.
Yes — keyword research, content and on-page work in Arabic with proper right-to-left handling. Arabic search is one of the biggest openings in this market: most Lebanese and GCC businesses compete only in English, leaving Arabic queries with far less competition.
Yes. The free review works on any site — WordPress, Shopify, custom code. Because I'm a developer, technical problems found in the audit get fixed directly instead of being handed back to you as a to-do list. If the site's foundation is beyond saving, I'll tell you that honestly too.
Winning the map pack — the three map results Google shows for searches like "near me" or "in Beirut". That takes a fully built Google Business Profile with the right categories and services, a steady flow of genuine reviews, consistent name-address-phone citations across directories, and location-relevant pages on your website.
Yes. Campaigns can target Lebanon, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar — with country-specific keywords, content for each market, and hreflang set correctly when a site serves several. Bilingual English/Arabic work doubles the reach in every one of them.
A scoped monthly mix of technical maintenance, content (pages or articles), local SEO and citation work, and link building from real relationships — plus the monthly report. The exact mix is agreed in the proposal, and it shifts month to month toward whatever the data says is working.
You'll see the same numbers I do: keyword positions, clicks and impressions from Google Search Console, enquiries from the site, and a monthly check of whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity mention your business. If a quarter passes without movement, we change the plan — you're never locked into a contract that isn't earning.
More questions about SEO, AI search and how it fits with a new website are in the full web design & development FAQ.
Let's get you found — and named.
Beirut · Lebanon · GCC — +961 70 884 941 · info@omarhalabi.com
Free review · fixed monthly fees in USD · no lock-in contracts.