Skip to content

GitLab

  • Projects
  • Groups
  • Snippets
  • Help
    • Loading...
  • Help
    • Help
    • Support
    • Community forum
    • Submit feedback
  • Sign in / Register
A
arabicseowiki
  • Project overview
    • Project overview
    • Details
    • Activity
  • Issues 1
    • Issues 1
    • List
    • Boards
    • Labels
    • Service Desk
    • Milestones
  • Merge Requests 0
    • Merge Requests 0
  • CI/CD
    • CI/CD
    • Pipelines
    • Jobs
    • Schedules
  • Operations
    • Operations
    • Incidents
    • Environments
  • Packages & Registries
    • Packages & Registries
    • Package Registry
  • Analytics
    • Analytics
    • CI/CD
    • Value Stream
  • Wiki
    • Wiki
  • Snippets
    • Snippets
  • Members
    • Members
  • Activity
  • Create a new issue
  • Jobs
  • Issue Boards
Collapse sidebar
  • Lucia Freitas
  • arabicseowiki
  • Issues
  • #1

Closed
Open
Created Aug 25, 2025 by Lucia Freitas@luciafreitas18Maintainer

Powerful Paid Advertising Approaches for the Saudi Market

Through extensive testing for a cuisine platform company, we identified that campaigns presented between evening hours significantly outperformed those shown during typical peak hours, generating 163% greater purchases.

Current platform usage in Saudi Arabia:

  • Image network: Leading for aspirational brands
  • Ephemeral platform: Highly effective with younger demographics
  • Conversation platform: Strong for news and social conversation
  • Brief content: Quickly expanding notably with Gen Z audiences
  • LinkedIn: Effective for corporate communication

For a hotel brand, we identified that literal conversion of their international keywords resulted in exceptionally unproductive investment. After implementing a locally-focused search term strategy, their CPA reduced by seventy-three percent.

  • Shifting CTA buttons to the right-hand portion of forms and interfaces
  • Rethinking visual importance to progress from right to left
  • Redesigning clickable components to align with the right-to-left reading pattern

Last month, a retail client consulted me after spending over 250,000 SAR on unsuccessful PPC initiatives. After restructuring their strategy, we produced a five hundred thirty-seven percent increase in ROAS.

Effective content elements:

  • Graphic superiority with regional settings
  • Short-form dynamic media with Arabic audio
  • Authentic glimpses that add personality to the brand
  • Seasonal events recognition

Helping a food brand, we established a content strategy that integrated regional tastes with international quality, generating response metrics two hundred eighteen percent greater than their earlier approach.

Throughout my recent project for a investment company in Riyadh, we discovered that users were repeatedly tapping the wrong navigation elements. Our eye-tracking demonstrated that their attention naturally progressed from right to left, but the main navigation components were placed with a left-to-right importance.

Last quarter, a shop network invested over 200,000 SAR in conventional advertising with underwhelming returns. After transitioning just 30% of that budget to smartphone advertising, they achieved a 328% growth in customer arrivals.

Essential delivery discoveries included:

  • Decreased rivalry during worship moments with stable performance
  • Greater response on Fridays and Saturdays notably after night prayers
  • Periodic changes demanding spending modifications during religious occasions
  • Educational timetable effects on particular industries

Using comprehensive research for a shopping business, we identified that content published between 9-11 PM significantly outperformed those published during standard optimal periods, generating one hundred forty-three percent better interaction.

Key approaches included:

  • Consulting Saudi regional experts to identify genuine lookup habits
  • Investigating local competitors for query approaches
  • Building a dual-language search term structure to attract all potential searchers
  • Applying Saudi Arabic dialect instead of classical terminology

Important components included:

  • Handheld-optimized ad formats
  • Touch-to-contact additions for speaking-oriented users
  • Application advertising for relevant searches
  • Device-specific destination sites

For a luxury brand, we discovered that Snapchat and Instagram dramatically surpassed Facebook for connection and conversion, resulting in a focused shift of effort that improved complete effectiveness by over one hundred fifty percent.

Last month, I was helping a major e-commerce business that had poured over 200,000 SAR on a impressive website that was failing miserably. The problem? They had simply translated their English site without considering the basic experience variations needed for Arabic users.

  • Place the most critical content in the upper-right area of the screen
  • Arrange content blocks to flow from right to left and top to bottom
  • Use heavier visual weight on the right side of symmetrical layouts
  • Ensure that indicating icons (such as arrows) point in the correct direction for RTL interfaces

If you're developing or revamping a professional website design cost for the Saudi market, I strongly recommend consulting professionals who truly understand the subtleties of Arabic user experience rather than just adapting Western interfaces.

Using extensive testing for a meal service client, we identified that advertisements delivered between night time significantly outperformed those shown during standard prime times, generating one hundred sixty-three percent greater purchases.

Powerful techniques included:

  • Highlighting communal benefits rather than personal benefits

  • Adding subtle religious references where suitable

  • Adapting promotion language to align with Saudi traditional values

  • Developing separate ad variations for various areas within the Kingdom

  • Moved product visuals to the left area, with product details and buy buttons on the right

  • Changed the photo slider to advance from right to left

  • Implemented a custom Arabic text style that maintained readability at various scales

Assignee
Assign to
None
Milestone
None
Assign milestone
Time tracking
None
Due date
None