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Zid SEO services

Zid SEO services grow a Zid store in Arabic and English search. We start with what is indexed and what is duplicated, rebuild the categories around real search demand, write product pages that sell, and fix what the theme slows down. Reporting is weekly and tied to orders.

30 minutes. No pitch deck. You leave with a prioritised plan.

Zid is a Saudi ecommerce platform, and Zid stores tend to share the same three problems: half the catalogue is not indexed, the categories were built around stock rather than search, and the phone experience is slower than anyone realises. Zid SEO is the part of our SEO services that works through those in order.

What do you check first on a Zid store?

Indexing, before anything else.

We compare what you have published with what search engines have stored. Missing products usually point at one of a short list of causes: pages reachable only through filters, canonical tags pointing at a parent, thin product pages with no unique text, or a sitemap that has not been updated since launch.

Then we look for the opposite problem: URLs that exist and should not. Filtered lists, sort orders, tracking parameters and pagination can multiply one category into dozens of near-identical pages, each taking a share of the signals that should belong to one.

How do you find the words Arabic shoppers use?

By reading search data in both languages instead of translating your catalogue.

The same product can be searched for in Gulf Arabic, in Modern Standard Arabic, in a dialect spelling with different letters, and in transliterated English. Shoppers also mix the two, typing an English brand name inside an Arabic phrase. A catalogue that names products the way your supplier does catches almost none of that.

We build the term list from real search data, group it by what the shopper wants, and map one job to one page. Product titles then follow a pattern that includes the words people actually use. The full method sits on the Arabic SEO page.

What makes a product page rank and sell?

Detail that only you can provide.

Specifications in a table, real photos from more than one angle, sizes and materials, delivery time, return terms, and a short paragraph that says who the product suits. Reviews from your own buyers add words no competitor can copy. Availability marked up so it matches the page.

The pages that fail are the ones with a manufacturer's paragraph copied to thirty stores, one photo, and no answer to the questions a buyer would ask before paying.

Does a file listing your content for AI models help?

No, and it is worth saying plainly because it gets sold as a service.

97%

Share of llms.txt files that received no requests at all, across a study of 137,000 domains. Google has said the file has no effect on its systems. Ahrefs

What does help is more ordinary: let the crawlers that fetch pages for answer engines reach your store, keep the important text in the HTML rather than behind a script, state prices, delivery and return terms in plain words, and get mentioned on the review platforms and lists your buyers already read.

What can be fixed inside Zid, and what cannot?

Every hosted platform has three tiers of fix. Knowing which tier a problem sits in saves weeks of arguing.

We label every finding with its tier before you decide what to fund.
Type of fixExampleWho ships it
SettingTitles, descriptions, slugs, categories, redirectsUs, inside the dashboard, the same week
Theme changeHeading structure, image sizes, markup, script orderYour developer or theme provider, from our written ticket
Platform requestServer headers, robots rules, sitemap behaviourThe platform, after we raise it with evidence
Not worth itRewriting 5,000 product descriptions by handNobody: we prioritise the products with demand

How does a Zid engagement run?

  1. Crawl and compare

    We crawl the store, pull Search Console, and list what is indexed, what is missing and what is duplicated.

  2. Plan the categories

    Categories are matched to how people search, with gaps added and overlapping ones merged, so each page has one job.

  3. Ship the structural fixes

    Canonical and filter rules, redirects for changed URLs, internal links, and markup that matches the page.

  4. Write what sells

    Category copy and the product pages with real demand, in Arabic and English where you sell in both.

  5. Measure and repeat

    Weekly reporting on orders and revenue by category, with next week's tasks listed underneath.

What happens if you move platforms?

Most search losses in a migration come from three skipped steps: no URL map, no redirects for the pages that earned traffic, and no check after launch.

We handle the search side either way you move. Before the switch we list every URL with traffic, links or rankings and map it to its new address. On launch day we test the redirects and the sitemap. In the weeks after, we watch indexing and fix what slipped. The same applies moving to or from Salla, or to a custom build covered by our general ecommerce SEO work.

How fast should the store be on a phone?

Fast enough that a shopper on mobile data sees the product image without waiting. That is a sales number as much as a search number.

The fixes rarely need a rebuild: right-sized images in a modern format, fewer apps loading on every page, scripts deferred until after the first paint, and a layout that does not jump while fonts load.

Who gets the most out of this work?

Stores with something to defend and something to grow.

The best fit is a store with a few hundred products, real repeat buyers, and categories that people search for by name. There is enough demand to win, enough margin to fund the work, and enough history for search engines to trust the domain.

Two cases are harder. A brand-new store with ten products and no reviews needs demand before it needs a retainer, and paid traffic often builds that faster. A store whose whole category is owned by a marketplace needs a narrower plan: brand terms, long-tail products, buying guides and repeat purchase, rather than a head-on fight for the broad term.

We say which of these you are on the first call, before anyone signs anything.

What do you need from us?

Three things, and none of them take much of your week.

A staff account on the store, or a person who can apply changes we write. Access to Search Console and analytics, or permission to set them up properly, because store analytics are wrong far more often than anyone expects. And someone who can answer questions about the products: what they are made of, who buys them, what customers ask before paying.

That last one is where most of the value comes from. The detail your team knows by heart is exactly what makes a page rank and what makes an answer engine willing to quote it.

How do you measure Zid SEO?

Orders and revenue from organic visits, split by category and by language. Then the diagnostics that explain them: indexed products, clicks by page type, speed at the 75th percentile, and your visibility in Arabic search against English.

If you sell mainly in one city, the local side matters too. Our Riyadh SEO page covers what buyers there search for and how the map results fit alongside the store.

How is Zid SEO priced?

A flat monthly retainer, scaled to catalogue size and how much writing you need. Starting prices are on the pricing page. Arabic pages are planned and written from Arabic search data, not translated at the end.

How do we start?

Book a free 30-minute consultation and bring your store URL. We check crawler access, markup, structure and speed, and name the first three fixes. Bring one category too and we will show you what stands between it and page one.

Questions we get asked

  • What is Zid SEO?

    It is search work built for a store on Zid, the Saudi ecommerce platform. The principles match any store: one job per page, clean URLs, fast mobile pages. What differs is which changes are settings, which need the theme, and which need a request to the platform.

  • Do we need to change our theme?

    Usually not. Most gains come from structure, categories, titles and images. Where the theme blocks a fix, we write the change up so your developer or theme provider can ship it, and we tell you what it is worth before you spend.

  • Do you write Arabic product copy?

    Yes. We research Arabic search terms first, then write in Arabic. Translated English copy tends to miss the words shoppers type, especially for everyday products with several common names.

  • How long does it take to see movement?

    Indexing and speed fixes often show within weeks. Category rankings usually take three to six months, longer in crowded categories. You get a weekly report either way, so progress is visible before rankings move.

  • Can you migrate our store from another platform?

    We can plan and supervise the search side of a migration: URL mapping, redirects, keeping the pages that earn traffic, and checking indexing after launch. Most traffic losses in a migration come from skipped redirects.

  • Do you work with our developer?

    Yes. We write tickets with the problem, the fix and how to test it. Where you have no developer, we work inside the dashboard with a staff account you control.

  • Is a blog worth it for a Zid store?

    A small one is. Posts that answer buying questions and link down to a category earn their place. Posts published to fill a calendar compete with your own category pages and rarely earn links.

Thirty minutes to see where your site is invisible.

Book a free consultation with Ibrahem and Jeremy. We look at your site on search, AI answers and conversion while we talk, and you leave with a prioritised plan.

30 minutes. No pitch deck. You leave with a prioritised plan.