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Practical playbooks for growing in Dubai.

SEO, paid media, booking flows and automation - written for operators in the UAE and the GCC, not for other marketers.

Compliance 14 min 2026-08-27

Does UAE law require your website to be in Arabic? The articles, and what is still only a draft

Federal Law 15/2020 Articles 3, 8, 25 and 26, the fine table in Cabinet Decision 66/2023, where the AED 200,000 figure that circulates online actually comes from, and what the April 2026 draft Arabic Language Law does and does not yet say.

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Local SEO 13 min 2026-08-27

Why a free-zone or virtual-office address will not get you a Google Business Profile

Google's guidelines say a rented mailing address you do not operate from is not eligible, name three conditions for coworking, and tell service-area businesses to hide the address they actually work from. Here is the wording, and what it does to the five address setups a Dubai free-zone licence produces.

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Hosting 15 min 2026-08-27

Should you host your website in the UAE? We measured it from Dubai

Six measurement points inside the UAE, five runs, round-trip time and time to first byte reported separately, protocol first and raw values in a table. What the numbers say about server location, and what Google actually publishes about it.

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Compliance 14 min 2026-08-27

UAE e-commerce website requirements: Decree-Law 14/2023 turned into page elements

Articles 2, 5, 6 and 7 of Federal Decree-Law 14/2023 read as a build list: which sentence produces which element, where that element sits in the page, and what the penalties decision of 2025 attached to it.

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Compliance 15 min 2026-08-27

VAT on your UAE online store: thresholds, price display, and the invoice fields

The two registration thresholds as the FTA publishes them, the sentence that removes the threshold for non-resident sellers, and the twelve fields Article 59 of the VAT Executive Regulation puts on a tax invoice.

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SEO 9 min 2026-05-02

SEO in Dubai 2026: a no-fluff playbook for UAE brands

What actually moves rankings in Dubai right now - local pack, Arabic SEO, schema, content clusters and the boring technical work most agencies skip.

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