01 — The brief
Paid ads stop working the moment you stop paying. SEO is the opposite — it's the discipline of earning visibility that keeps generating leads long after the work is done. Most Iraqi businesses are barely visible on Google for the keywords their customers actually use. The local market is wide open, the Arabic keyword opportunity is almost entirely unclaimed, and even basic technical SEO puts a brand ahead of 80% of its competitors.
Pomelo Agency is one of the very few SEO specialists operating in Iraq with experience across English, Arabic, and Kurdish search behaviour. We don't sell SEO as a vanity exercise — we measure success by qualified organic leads, ranked commercial keywords, and measurable revenue impact.
02 — What's included
A forensic crawl covering indexation, Core Web Vitals, schema, sitemap, robots, internal linking, and crawl budget. You get a prioritised fix list — not a 200-page PDF. Where a site rebuild is the faster path, we'll say so.
Keyword-targeted titles, meta descriptions, H1/H2 structure, schema markup, image SEO, internal linking. Done for every priority URL on the site.
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. Plays neatly into the social engine when it's running in parallel.
Google Business Profile optimisation for Erbil and Baghdad, NAP consistency across directories, local citations, and review acquisition.
Outreach to Iraqi business publications, directory placements, PR-driven editorial links, and link-magnet content. White-hat only — no link farms, ever.
Native-language keyword research, hreflang implementation, and content optimised for Arabic and Kurdish search behaviour. The biggest unclaimed opportunity in the Iraqi market.
03 — How we work
We measure where you are today — keywords, traffic, technical health, competitor positioning — so we can prove progress later.
A 90-day prioritised plan focused on the highest-ROI moves first. No fluff, no 50-page strategy decks.
Technical fixes, on-page optimization, content production, and link building — shipped weekly, not promised quarterly.
Monthly reporting tied to commercial keywords, organic conversions, and revenue — not vanity metrics like impressions.
04 — Frequently asked
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.
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 and what they're worth, and how organic stacks alongside the rest of our disciplines.