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Arabic websites and Arabic website design

Cornish services have designed and built websites in Arabic.

Websites in the Arabic language

Arabic is a Semitic language and, like Hebrew, is written from right to left.

Issues when designing Arabic websites

One important factor here is the server used for both development and to host the website. Some servers send default character sets to the browser, overwriting any character set defined within the webpage and this prevents the Arabic character set from showing clearly. Support for Arabic character sets is not good in many popular design and other software applications which can add to development costs.

The right to left of the text means that many websites need redesigning as menus and headers need flipping round horizontally to have the website optimized in terms of usability and visitor conversion.. The arabic characters also tend to be shorter and wider than Latin characters and this gives a different visual appearance to the website.

Arabic domain names

What is an arabic domain name? Not obvious as many different countries speak Arabic. Choice here may depend on the country most of your contact is with.

Search Engine Marketing in Arabic

Arabic is spoken by the majority of people in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Gaza Strip, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, West Bank, and Yemen. It is also spoken as a minority language in many different countries.

It is the large number of countries in which Arabic is spoken which provides the major challenge for Arabic search marketing.

To get the best results we recommend first deciding on the main target countries. It may be necessary to have different arabic websites for different countries. Most search engines tend to be focused on a range of countries. Examples include Ayna (Egypt), Naseej (Saudi Arabia), Fares.net (United Arab Emirates) plus some more general ones such as Arab0.com. It is also worth mentioning that many Arab businesses appear to search in English or French or another language, depending on location so in some places (eg Dubai) having an english language website ranked high in the search engines is just as important.

Cornish can provide different levels of search marketing in Arabic or Arabic countries.. Contacts us for advice.

Looking for a company to translate and create your Arabic website?

Cornish WebServices can provide a full translation, design, hosting and search marketing service in Arabic and many other languages. We always use natural language speakers for the translation work to give the best results.

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