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Shafiul Jony
SEO Analyst, ZiRank
Shafiul Jony is an SEO Analyst at ZiRank in Dubai. He audits websites, plans keyword and link strategies for UAE and GCC businesses, and writes the SEO and link building guides on this site.
Articles by Shafiul
20 articles on SEO, link building and web development for UAE and GCC businesses.
SEO agency vs freelancer vs an in-house hire in the UAE
A freelancer suits one well-defined task, an in-house hire suits a business where SEO is a full-time priority, and an SEO agency suits a bus...
Shopify vs WooCommerce for UAE businesses
Choose Shopify if you want a fully hosted store with less technical maintenance, and choose WooCommerce if you want full ownership of your s...
WordPress vs custom website: how to choose
Choose WordPress for a content-managed site you can launch quickly and affordably, and choose a custom build, such as one on Laravel, when y...
Flutter vs React Native for a UAE business app
Both Flutter and React Native suit most UAE business apps; Flutter gives more consistent design across iOS and Android, while React Native f...
Google Business Profile optimisation in Dubai: a step by step guide
Optimising a Google Business Profile in Dubai means choosing accurate categories, listing every service, writing a clear description, adding...
How to rank on Google Maps in Dubai
Google ranks the Maps local pack on relevance, distance, and prominence, as Google itself describes them, and a business improves its positi...
Arabic keyword research for the UAE: a practical guide
Arabic keyword research for the UAE means researching how people actually search in Arabic, including dialect, transliterated Arabic in Lati...
UAE business directories and local citations: what actually matters
A local citation is any online listing of your business name, address, and phone number, and what matters most is keeping those details iden...
Shopify SEO checklist for UAE stores
A Shopify SEO checklist for UAE stores covers collection structure, product content, duplicate URLs, structured data, speed, images, and red...
E-commerce SEO in the UAE: a practical guide
E-commerce SEO in the UAE means structuring category and product pages, internal links, and technical setup so shoppers and search engines c...
How to get recommended by ChatGPT and AI search
Getting recommended by ChatGPT and other AI assistants means allowing their crawlers access, publishing clear quotable answers, keeping stru...
How to redesign a website without losing SEO
A website redesign keeps its SEO when every URL is inventoried, redirected with a 301 map, content and metadata are preserved, and rankings...
How much does SEO cost in Dubai?
See what SEO and link building cost for Dubai and UAE businesses, how ZiRank prices its monthly plans, and what really drives the cost up or...
How much does a website cost in Dubai?
See real website design and development prices for Dubai and the UAE, from landing pages to enterprise platforms, plus ongoing hosting costs...
How much does a Shopify store cost in the UAE?
See ZiRank's real Shopify development prices for UAE businesses, covering setup, custom stores, migrations, and headless builds, plus Shopif...
How much does web app development cost in Dubai?
See ZiRank's real custom software and web app prices for Dubai and the UAE, from MVPs to enterprise systems, and what actually drives the co...
How to choose an SEO agency in Dubai
Choose an SEO agency in Dubai that shows real client examples, gives you access to your own Search Console and Analytics data, prices work a...
How we vet backlinks: the 7-point checklist we actually use
Every link we place passes 7 checks before outreach even starts: DR floor, real traffic, niche relevance, do-follow status, indexation, clea...
UAE SEO in 2026: what's actually different about ranking here
Bilingual query behaviour, a local pack that rewards GBP-native businesses, and seasonality tied to Ramadan and DSF mean a US-shaped SEO pla...
Core Web Vitals aren't optional anymore: what UAE sites get wrong
Three mistakes show up in almost every UAE Core Web Vitals audit we run: unoptimised hero images, a 15+ plugin WordPress stack, and render-b...
How we work
Audit first, then a plan you can hold us to.
Every engagement Shafiul works on starts with a crawl, a look at Search Console and GA4, and a written plan with the pages and links that will move. You see the evidence before you see a proposal.
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Send your website and the keywords that matter. We check your rankings, links and competitors for free and reply within two business days.