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APRIL 11, 2017

Check out the shortlist for the MENA Search Awards 2017

Shortlisted nominees of the inaugural MENA Search Awards have been announced.

The MENA Search Awards, a regional version of the popular UK Search Awards, is considered as the "premiere celebration of SEO, PPC and content marketing in the Middle East & North Africa."

The awards are dedicated to showcasing the best campaigns of the region's leading search agencies and brands.

Check out the shortlist below.


Best Use of Search - Retail

-Al Futtaim ACE - Regional ecommerce Launch
-Chess Tag - Red Sea Mall Website SEO
-iProspect MENA - MAC Cosmetics & iProspect - Get MAC
-Kubix Digital & Mavi - Kubix Digital Mavis Black Friday Sensation in Turkey
-Latitude & eXtra Stores - iPhone 7 Release Campaign
-Latitude & eXtra Stores - MegaSale PPC Campaign
-Zeo Agency & Atasun Optik - How Did Zeo Agency Help Largest Optical Retail Of Turkey To Increase 247% More SEO Visibility & 88% More Organic Traffic?
-Zeo Agency & Hepsiburada - How did we help to Turkeys biggest online retailer for entering new fashion market & succeed with adding 4M monthly organic traffic?


Best Use of Search - Finance

-iProspect MENA - Commercial Bank of Qatar & iProspect - Expat Banking with CBQ
-iProspect MENA - MasterCard & iProspect - MasterCard Corporate Always On Search
-RBBi & ADIB - Banking on Business Intelligence


Best Use of Search - Travel/Leisure

-Digitaloft & SilverDoor - Recovering A Penguin Penalty & Delivering Growth In The MENA Region
-Hype - Pegasus Airlines – To Be or Not To Be
-Latitude & Reel Cinemas - Reel-Time Dynamic Search Ads
-NetBooster MENA & Emirates Airline - Increasing Flight Searches With A New KPI
-RBBi & Hertz - Driving Hertz Up The SERP
-RBBi & Qatar Airways - Theres more to life than just Google


Best Local Campaign

-Acuvue & iProspect - More Eyes on Acuvue
-Digitaloft & SilverDoor Recovering A Penguin Penalty & Delivering Growth In The MENA Region
-DP AlwaysOn 2016 - Magna Global - Dubai Properties
-Microsoft & iProspect - Trial Generation For Microsoft Azure in Turkey
-Zeo Agency& EnerjiSA - How Did We Increase Turkey's Biggest Energy Provider EnerjiSAs SEO Visibility 136% in 6 Months At Turkey?
-Zeo Agency & Yves Rocher - How did we increase Yves Rocher's SEO visibility by 54% in 6 months at a local market?


Best Low Budget Campaign

-Bruce Clay Middle East & Biz Group - Search on a Budget!
-Kubix Digital & Juico - Cleanse Me Up With Juico Kubix Digital
-RBBi & Qatar Airways - The Power of Geo-Demographic Segmentation
-RBBi & Talise Fitness - Big Gains on a Trim Budget
-Zeo Agency & Atasun Optik - How Did We Increase Largest Optics Retailer Atasuns Organic Traffic 87% In A Year?
-Zeo Agency & Onedio - How Did Zeo Agency Helped Onedio To Acquire 10M Monthly Organic Traffic With A Small Budget Like £900?


Best Integrated Campaign

-Barbican Bro Challenge Campaign
-Kubix Digital - METRO's "Own Business Day"
-Nexa - College of Fashion & Design UAE Integrated Launch Campaign
-Zeo Agency - How We Helped Traditional Magazine To Increase 77% More Traffic by Producing Content for Online?


Best PPC Campaign

-Dar Al Tamleek & Born Interactive - Born Interactive & Dar Al Tamleek Masakin PPC Campaign
-Hype - Pegasus Airlines – To Be or Not To Be
-iProspect MENA - MAC Cosmetics & iProspect - Get MAC
-iProspect MENA - Microsoft & iProspect - Trial Generation for Microsoft Azure in Turkey
-Kubix Digital & Celik Motor - 3 2 1...Get Your Car! - Kubix Digital
-NetBooster MENA & Emirates Airline Increasing Flight Searches with A New KPI
-Nexa & Preparation for Life - Study In The UK Performance Marketing Campaign by Nexa
RBBi & ADIB - Banking on Business Intelligence
-RBBi & Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi - Using search to take the pain out of finding a doctor


Best SEO Campaign

-Al-Futtaim ACE - Regional eCommerce Launch
-Big5 & Nexa - Big5 Dubai SEO Campaign by Nexa
-iProspect MENA - Commercial Bank of Qatar & iProspect - Expat Banking with CBQ
-Johnson & Johnson MENA and Bruce Clay Middle East - MENA SEO - Lets Get Ranking!
-Latitude & eXtra Stores - iPhone 7 Release Campaign
-RBBi & Hertz - Driving Hertz Up The SERP
-Unilever & Traffic Digital - Cleanipedia
-Zeo Agency & Hepsiburada - How did we gain extra 142M organic traffic to Turkeys Amazon Hepsiburada?
-Zeo Agency & Onedio - How Did Turkeys Buzzfeed Onedio Gained 10M Monthly Organic Traffic With SEO?
-Zeo Agency & Yemek.com - How Did We Increase Yemek.coms Traffic By 419% And Get Listed On The First Position For All Generic Keywords?


Best Use of Content Marketing

-Caliber & PAYFORT - The PAYFORT Blog A Campaign by Caliber Interactive
-Elephate campaign for Modanisa - How to gain 367% advantage over competition in just 10 months?
-iProspect MENA - Commercial Bank of Qatar & iProspect - Expat Banking with CBQ
-Vissum & Internet Republica - SEO project
-Zeo Agency & Onedio - How Did Zeo Agency Helped Turkeys Biggest Content Site To Acquire 10M Monthly Organic Traffic?
-Zeo Agency & Yemek.com - How Yemek.com Became 471% More Visible With Smart Content Strategies


Innovation - Campaign

-DP AlwaysOn 2016 - Magna Global - Dubai Properties
-Latitude & Reel Cinemas - Reel-Time Dynamic Search Ads
-Zeo Agency & Hepsiburada - How we tested React.js automated SEO with iMacros visualized keyword data in a different way and helped Hepsiburada to increase traffic by 142M?


Innovation - Software

-DeepCrawl
-LinkResearchTools GmbH - Link Research SEO Toolbar
-LinkResearchTools - Link Redirect Trace Browser Extension
-OnCrawl - Free SEO Toolbox
-Trisolute Software - Trisolute News Dashboard for mobile and desktop


Best PPC Management Software Suite

-DoubleClick - DoubleClick Search
-Optmyzr - PPC Management Tools and Reports


Best SEO Software Suite

-Bruce Clay Middle East
-OnCrawl - SEO crawler and log analyzer
-ScribbleLive Linkdex - The SEO platform of choice for Professional Marketers


Best Search Software Tool

-DeepCrawl
-LinkResearchTools - Link Detox
-OnCrawl - SEO crawler and log analyzer
-ScribbleLive Linkdex - Console Rocket - Google Search Console ON ROCKET FUEL
-Trisolute Software - Trisolute News Dashboard for mobile and desktop


Best Small Agency

-Bruce Clay Middle East
-Chain Reaction
-Hype
-Kubix Digital
-RBBi PPC Team
-RBBi SEO Team


Best Large Agency

-Latitude Digital Marketing
-Traffic Digital (wewanttraffic.com)
-Zeo Agency


Young Search Professional

-Irem Guenizi
-Mehmet Aktug
-Mertcan Isler
-Mert Zeytinci
-Rachel Pascal D'Souza


A panel of industry leaders and experts evaluated the campaigns. According to MENA Search Awards' website, a face to face panel meeting will be done to determine the successful entrants. (http://www.menasearchawards.com/judges)

Winners will be revealed during an awards party on May 10 at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel in Dubai.

Don't Panic - a creative agency is the organizer of the MENA Search Awards.



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