pomeloagency.com
Pomelo Agency, Iraq's Leading Digital Marketing
Specialist SEO, paid advertising, video production, and brand identity for ambitious brands across Iraq and the Middle East.
Technical SEO, content strategy, and authority backlinks in English, Arabic, and Kurdish, built for organic compounding across Iraq and the Middle East.
Paid ads stop the moment you stop paying. SEO is the opposite, visibility that keeps generating leads long after the work is done. Most Iraqi businesses are barely visible for the keywords their customers actually use, and the Arabic keyword space is almost entirely unclaimed.
Audit shipped. Technical fixes published. Long-tail rankings start appearing.
Commercial keywords ranking. Organic leads pass paid leads, same budget.
SEO delivers what would have cost$50K+per month in paid spend.
Where SEO leads first overtake paid leads at the same monthly spend, and stay ahead permanently.
By month 12, an SEO retainer delivers roughly five times the leads of the same money spent on Meta and Google Ads.
Arabic SEO in Iraq is barely contested. Kurdish SEO is virgin territory. English picks up the regional buyers.
Every Pomelo SEO retainer includes all six. We don't separate them into add-ons because they don't work that way, technical SEO without content is wasted, content without authority is invisible, and local SEO without Arabic leaves the biggest opportunity untouched.
Forensic crawl covering indexation, Core Web Vitals, schema, sitemap, robots, internal linking, crawl budget. You get a prioritised fix list, not a 200-page PDF.
Keyword-targeted titles, meta descriptions, heading hierarchy, schema markup, image SEO, internal linking. Done for every priority URL, not just the homepage.
Keyword research grounded in real buyer journey, mapped to commercial-intent landing pages and top-of-funnel content. We brief, you publish, or we ghostwrite.
Google Business Profile optimization for Erbil and Baghdad, NAP consistency across every directory, local citations, and review acquisition. The fastest ranking lever in the Iraqi market.
Outreach to Iraqi business publications, directory placements, PR-driven editorial links, and link-magnet content. White-hat only, never link farms, never paid networks.
Native-language keyword research, correct hreflang implementation, and content optimized for Arabic and Kurdish search behaviour. The biggest unclaimed opportunity in the Iraqi market.
No 50-page decks. Four phases that turn audit findings into ranked commercial keywords within the first quarter, and a measurement system that compounds month after month.
Forensic crawl, technical health, keyword baseline, competitor positioning. We measure where you are today so we can prove progress.
A 90-day prioritised plan focused on the highest-ROI moves first. Clear deliverables, clear timelines, no 50-page decks.
Technical fixes, on-page optimization, content production, link building, shipped weekly, not promised quarterly. Real work, every week.
Monthly reporting tied to commercial keywords, organic conversions, and revenue. Not impressions. Not vanity. The numbers that matter.
The questions Iraqi founders actually ask before signing an SEO retainer. Straight answers, no jargon, and no two-week ranking promises.
Technical and on-page fixes can move rankings within 4–6 weeks. Content-driven rankings for commercial keywords typically take 3–6 months. Backlink-driven authority builds over 6–12 months. Anyone promising page-one rankings in two weeks is selling you something else.
Yes, and this is where most of our clients see the fastest wins. The Arabic-language keyword space in Iraq is largely unclaimed by competitors, and Kurdish SEO is essentially virgin territory. We do native-language keyword research, write or brief content in-language, and implement hreflang correctly.
Our SEO engagements start at $1,500/month for a single-language local business and scale up for multi-language, multi-location, or e-commerce SEO. We don't do hourly billing, every engagement is a fixed monthly retainer with defined deliverables.
Almost always, fixing the existing site is faster and cheaper than rebuilding. We start with a technical audit; if the platform fundamentally can't support good SEO (rare), we'll say so. Most sites need optimization, not a rewrite, though if a rebuild is needed, our web and app development team can handle it.
We're on the ground in Iraq. We understand local search behaviour, Arabic and Kurdish keyword nuance, the local competitive landscape, and the realities of doing business here. International agencies can't replicate that, and most don't try.
Start with a free 30-minute audit of your current site. We'll show you the three biggest opportunities, what they're worth, and how organic SEO stacks alongside the rest of our disciplines.