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Raaquib Pathan, SEO Consultant in Dubai
SEO & AI Search Consultant · Working with brands worldwide

An SEO Consultant Who Turns Search Into Predictable Revenue

I'm Raaquib, an SEO and AI search consultant who helps ambitious brands move from invisible to category-leading on Google and inside AI answers. Seven years spent turning organic search into a measurable, compounding growth channel.

7+
Years in SEO
9x
Peak organic growth
$10M+
Revenue generated via SEO
Raaquib Pathan, SEO and AI search consultant, wearing a Google Partners hoodie

Raaquib Pathan

SEO Consultant · Google Certified

Dubai · UAE

Trusted by universities, SaaS companies and global brands

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What I do

SEO consulting built around revenue, not rankings

Engage me for a single high-leverage project or embedded, fractional SEO leadership. Either way, the work ladders up to qualified pipeline you can measure.

SEO Consulting

Senior strategic direction for your growth team: a prioritised roadmap, forecasting and the judgement calls that make organic search a reliable revenue line.

  • Growth roadmap
  • Revenue forecasting
  • Advisory or hands-on

Technical SEO

The foundation work that quietly unlocks rankings: crawlability, site architecture, Core Web Vitals and clean indexation handled at scale.

  • Site health audits
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Crawl & index control

AI Search Optimization

Be the brand AI assistants name. I shape your entities, content and citations so ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Overviews pull their answers from you.

  • LLM visibility
  • Entity & citations
  • Answer-ready content

Link Building Strategy

Authority that genuinely moves rankings: relevant, high-DA placements earned through real relationships and digital PR, never spam.

  • Digital PR
  • 90+ DA placements
  • Genuine partnerships

International SEO

Win search across regions and languages with the right setup: hreflang, geo-targeting and the market-specific content gaps closed off.

  • Multi-region strategy
  • Hreflang setup
  • Local keyword gaps

Fractional SEO Leadership

Embedded SEO leadership for teams that need direction without a full-time hire. I set the strategy, mentor the team and own the outcome.

  • Team mentorship
  • Process & reporting
  • Outcome ownership
Is this you?

Where I tend to make the biggest difference

These are the situations I'm most often brought in to fix. If one of them sounds familiar, a strategy call is the fastest way forward.

  • You're getting traffic, but it isn't turning into leads or sales
  • You've launched a new site and need to grow organic from scratch
  • Your in-house SEO or agency has stalled and you're not sure why
  • You want stronger, cleaner backlinks from sites that actually count
  • You'd rather hand a complex SEO project to a specialist than juggle it
  • You want your brand showing up inside ChatGPT and other AI tools
Why work with me

One senior consultant, accountable end to end

You get one experienced consultant who owns the strategy, does the thinking, and is honest about what will and won't move the needle.

Google Certified

Certified by Google and continually retrained as search and AI shift, so the advice reflects how ranking works today, not last year.

7+ Years of Experience

Hundreds of pages ranked since 2019 across higher education, SaaS, manufacturing and retail, through every major algorithm update.

Every Side of the Table

In-house SEO lead, agency account manager and independent consultant. I've seen the problem from each seat, so I know what actually works.

AI Search Expertise

Early, hands-on work getting brands cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, not a label bolted on after the fact.

Proven Revenue Impact

I've turned organic search into a genuine revenue channel worth millions for the businesses I work with, measured rather than estimated.

Revenue, Not Vanity Metrics

I optimise for the numbers that grow a business, qualified leads, pipeline and revenue, not traffic that looks good but never converts.

Press & publications

Published on high-authority, industry-leading sites

For me, high-authority backlinks aren't a theory, they're something I earn. A few of the publications where my work has been featured and published:

  • I've earned editorial backlinks for clients on high-authority sites like these.
  • Every feature runs under my own name: real bylines, not anonymous guest posts.
  • Click any logo to open the live article and search for my name.
In their words

Recommendations from people I've worked with

Senior leaders, managers and partners I've worked alongside, in their own words, each recommendation verified on LinkedIn.

Every recommendation is verified on LinkedIn
Harsh Shah, Director, Citrusbug Technolabs, LinkedIn profile photo
Harsh ShahDirector, Citrusbug Technolabs
We've had the privilege of working with Raaquib for the past 7 years, and he has been leading our SEO team with remarkable dedication. What stands out most about him is his focus on building a strong, sustainable foundation. While his strategies are not about chasing quick wins, the long-term results are tremendous and lasting. Thanks to the solid groundwork he creates, we've seen consistent growth and inbound opportunities that continue to compound over time.
Verified recommendation on LinkedIn
Cristian Ungureanu, Digital Strategist, QuickMail, LinkedIn profile photo
Cristian UngureanuDigital Strategist, QuickMail
I worked with Raaquib on QuickMail's off-page SEO for a period of over 6 months. He is dedicated, resourceful, he has a can-do attitude, and he has experience in many areas of SEO. He helped us achieve great results during his time with us, and I warmly recommend him for any future off-page SEO projects.
Verified recommendation on LinkedIn
Azhad Aliwafa, Client Success Manager, Ubrik Media, LinkedIn profile photo
Azhad AliwafaClient Success Manager, Ubrik Media
Raaquib is a specialist, who is not only an expert in his domain, but has an in-born skill to plan, implement and handle his clients with ease. And right after he assures, he delivers. One step further... Raaquib spends enough time looking through your brand to know what genuinely works versus what doesnt. Therefore: no fluff, just SERP stuff. Keep up with the 'postioning'.
Verified recommendation on LinkedIn
Newton Dantas, Digital Marketing Manager, Ubrik Media, LinkedIn profile photo
Newton DantasDigital Marketing Manager, Ubrik Media
Raaquib knows how to get SEO results for his clients! When I worked with him, he explained in detail the time that it would take to get the results and actually got the results by moving the positions of the keywords to higher ranks. He is good at what he does, no doubt!!!
Verified recommendation on LinkedIn
The path here

Seven years, every seat in the room

Agency, in-house SaaS and independent consulting: the range that lets me read your SEO challenge from every angle.

  1. 2019 – 20212 yrs

    SEO Executive

    Citrusbug

    Learned the craft agency-side: on-page, audits and the fundamentals across a busy portfolio of clients.

  2. 2021 – 20221 yr

    SEO Team Lead

    Salesmate (Sales CRM)

    Led SEO for a B2B SaaS CRM, building the content and internal-linking engine that made organic a core growth channel.

  3. 2022 – 20253 yrs

    SEO Account Manager

    Ubrik Media

    Ran SEO across a portfolio of agency clients, sharpening hands-on experience in competitive, fast-moving markets.

  4. 2025 – PresentPresent

    Independent SEO Consultant

    Working globally

    Now consulting independently, helping SaaS founders, enterprises and ambitious SMEs grow through search and AI visibility.

Questions

SEO consulting, answered

Common questions from founders and marketing leaders weighing up an SEO consultant.

  • I act as a senior growth partner for your business: auditing where you stand in search, building a prioritised roadmap, and either doing the work hands-on or guiding your team to do it. The aim is always the same: turn organic and AI search into a dependable source of qualified leads and revenue.

  • SaaS founders, B2B companies, marketing managers, agencies needing white-label support, ambitious SMEs and universities. If organic growth is a priority and you want a partner who optimises for revenue rather than vanity metrics, we'll work well together.

  • More people now start their search inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews instead of the traditional results page. AI search optimization makes sure your brand is the one these models cite and recommend. It's an early edge today and a baseline requirement tomorrow.

  • It depends on your starting point and how competitive your niche is, but most businesses see meaningful movement within 3–6 months. Crowded sectors can take longer. My work ranges from doubling traffic in six months to a 9x increase over a longer horizon. I'll give you an honest forecast before we start.

  • Both. You can start with a focused SEO audit to get a clear, prioritised action plan, or engage me for ongoing consulting and fractional SEO leadership. Many clients begin with an audit and continue from there.

  • With an agency you often pay for overhead and get junior staff doing the work. Working with me, you deal directly with the person who builds the strategy and owns the results: senior thinking, faster decisions and no account-manager telephone game. I bring in trusted specialists when a project needs extra hands.

  • By the outcomes that matter to your business: qualified leads, pipeline and revenue from organic search, not vanity traffic. Every number I report is verified in Google Search Console, Looker Studio or Ahrefs, and I'm transparent about what's working and what isn't.

  • Yes, that's the whole point of how I work. I optimise for qualified leads and revenue, not rankings for their own sake. That has meant tripling conversions for one client and multiplying enquiries for another. The aim is always measurable pipeline, not numbers that only look good on a chart.

Let's talk

Make organic search your most dependable channel

Book a free strategy call. I'll pressure-test your current SEO, surface the fastest path to qualified leads, and map what AI search means for your brand.