Technical SEO for WordPress sites in Arabic

Technical SEO for WordPress sites in Arabic

techkahwa.net | 21 July 2026 WordPress makes it easy to launch an Arabic site in an afternoon, and just as easy to launch one with duplicate URLs, two competing sitemaps and a staging copy sitting in Google’s index. None of this needs a developer to fix, but it does need one pass through the settings … Read more

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Local SEO with Google Business Profile for Arab businesses

Local SEO with Google Business Profile for Arab businesses

techkahwa.net | 1 July 2026 A pharmacy in Amman, a bakery in Sfax, a phone repair shop in Sharjah: for businesses like these, the most valuable Google result is often not a blog post but the local listing with a map, opening hours and a call button. Google publishes how it chooses those results, and … Read more

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Structured data for Arabic sites: what to mark up and what to skip

Structured data for Arabic sites: what to mark up and what to skip

techkahwa.net | 11 June 2026 Structured data is one of those topics where Arabic site owners get two kinds of advice: “add every schema type you can find” or “don’t bother”. Google’s own documentation sits somewhere more useful than both, and it is clear on one point above all: correct markup makes a page eligible … Read more

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Google starts rolling out the May 2026 core update

Google starts rolling out the May 2026 core update

techkahwa.net | 22 May 2026 Google began rolling out its May 2026 core update on 21 May, less than two months after the March 2026 core update finished. The announcement says the rollout may take up to 2 weeks to complete, so for Arabic and bilingual sites the practical advice is the same as always: … Read more

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Helpful content and E-E-A-T, exactly as Google describes them

Helpful content and E-E-A-T, exactly as Google describes them

techkahwa.net | 3 May 2026 Few SEO terms are repeated as often, or explained as loosely, as “helpful content” and “E-E-A-T”. Google defines both on one documentation page, and the definitions are shorter and calmer than most of what circulates in Arabic marketing groups. The key line for anyone planning content is this: E-E-A-T itself … Read more

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Google adds “back button hijacking” to its spam policies

Google adds "back button hijacking" to its spam policies

techkahwa.net | 14 April 2026 Google has added a new practice to its spam policies: back button hijacking, where a site stops visitors from using the back button to return to the page they came from. The change sits under the existing malicious practices policy and was logged in Google’s documentation on 13 April 2026. … Read more

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Image SEO for Arabic sites: alt text, file names and formats

Image SEO for Arabic sites: alt text, file names and formats

techkahwa.net | 27 March 2026 Arabic sites lean heavily on images: product photos in online shops, step shots in recipes, screenshots in tech tutorials. Yet many of those images reach Google as IMG_0001.jpg with no description at all. Google’s image documentation is clear that alt text is the most important attribute for giving an image … Read more

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Internal linking for Arabic and bilingual sites

Internal linking for Arabic and bilingual sites

techkahwa.net | 10 March 2026 Internal links are the roads between your own pages: they help readers move to the next useful article and help Google discover pages and understand what they are about. Google’s link documentation boils the goal down to one sentence: every page you care about should have a link from at … Read more

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