Arabic websites and Arabic website design
Cornish services have designed and built many beautiful marketing websites in Arabic.
Websites in Arabic Language
Arabic is a Semitic language and, like Hebrew, is written from right to left. Our content management system, the Cornish CMS, can easily handle semitic text and Arabic characters which makes it very easily to produce a highly search engine optimised website to act as an effective marketing tool to the Arabic speaking market. We are able to design and build beautiful websites in English and translate into Arabic, or build websites immediately in Arabic using native language speakers to create high quality search engine optimised marketing copy and content. Our design and marketing team always take cultural sensitivities and localisation issues into account during each phase of creating your website so that your site acts as an outstanding marketing tool for your business prospects, wherever they are in the world.
Arabic Website Design Issues
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.
