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“Who are [your brand name] and what do they do?” — the question we send, in English and in Arabic, so you can compare the two answers.
Ask it inNothing is stored. The links open each engine with the question already typed — you read the answer there, not here.
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Beshoy Adel is the Head of SEO & GEO at VOCTOS, where he leads strategic initiatives in advanced search visibility and AI-powered content optimization. With 13+ years of experience in digital marketing, SEO strategy, and emerging search technologies, Beshoy's work focuses on bridging established SEO methodology with generative engine optimization.
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Monika Gabriel is a Senior SEO Specialist at VOCTOS, where she has worked for over two years. She has strong expertise in technical SEO, keyword research, and on-page optimization, and has led ranking growth on client accounts across healthcare, education and SaaS. Beyond her technical skills, Monika is passionate about building smart SEO strategies that improve both visibility and user experience. On the team she is known for her analytical approach and attention to detail.
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Reem Sameh is a Senior Full-Stack Web Developer at VOCTOS with four years of experience building fast, scalable, and SEO-friendly websites. She works across both front-end and back-end development, translating design and marketing requirements into clean, performant code, and ensuring technical foundations like site speed, structure, and Core Web Vitals support strong search performance.
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Keroles Mousa is the Head of PPC at VOCTOS, specializing in developing and executing comprehensive paid search strategies across Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising and YouTube. He has three years of hands-on experience in PPC campaign management, data-driven optimization and team leadership. On one translation-services account he cut cost per click by 53% and lifted the conversion rate by 164.7%.
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Tasneem Moustafa is an SEO Specialist at VOCTOS with two years of experience in on-page optimization, keyword research and technical SEO. She works across on-page optimization, keyword research, technical SEO, and content optimization, translating search data into actionable strategies that improve rankings and user experience.
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Aya Kandil is an SEO Specialist with over three years of experience in digital marketing. At VOCTOS she shapes SEO strategy across on-page optimization, in-depth analysis, AI search optimization, research and content optimization. Her work also covers link building, technical SEO and content strategy, which lets her run both the technical and content workstreams on the same account.
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Weekly, and less when there is nothing worth saying. We would rather skip a week than publish a roundup of other people's posts.
Some are original measurement and some are synthesis of published work — each study says which on its own page, with the sample, the method and the date it was last verified.
Yes. The engines answer the same question differently in Arabic and English, so we test the two separately and report them separately rather than translating one set of findings.
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