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Magdy Fattouh

Founder & SEO Director

Thirteen years on Egyptian travel search, and nothing else. Sets the strategy on every account and writes under his own name on the technical side — travel SEO, AI-answer visibility, and the site architecture that takes the booking.

13years on Egyptian travel search
50+travel brands built or ranked
EN · ARwrites in both

Magdy started doing search work for Egyptian tour operators when most of them had a website nobody had told them what to do with. The work widened from ranking pages, to building the sites that take bookings, to the software that runs them — in the order the industry actually needed.

He writes here from the same analysis we apply to client work: honest, practical, and measured against bookings rather than a ranking screenshot. If your site is Egyptian and it sells travel, these articles are written for you.

Articles by Magdy

Travel SEO Travel SEO for Egyptian tour operators: the 2026 playbook Ranking in Egypt inbound travel is an architecture problem before it is a content problem. Here is the order the work actually pays off in. 11 min Travel SEO How to rank a Nile cruise on Google: destination + duration architecture Nile cruises fail to rank because routes, durations and cabins live inside a booking form, not on pages. Here is the architecture that fixes it. 9 min Performance Core Web Vitals for travel WordPress sites: the speed that wins bookings A slow travel site loses the booking before the page finishes loading. Here is what Core Web Vitals actually measure, and the fixes that live in the code, not a caching plugin. 8 min Technical SEO Schema markup for tour operators: TouristTrip, Product & FAQ Structured data turns a plain blue link into a rich result — and makes a page quotable by AI engines. Here is what to mark up, and what breaks it. 8 min Direct booking Direct booking vs OTA: what each channel really costs an Egyptian operator The honest comparison, including the part most agencies leave out — direct bookings aren't free either. 9 min E-E-A-T E-E-A-T for Egyptian travel sites: named authors, licences & the trust that ranks Travel is money-and-safety adjacent, so Google and AI engines weigh who says it, not just what is said. Here is how to prove trust where both look. 8 min Paid & performance Brand defence: stop resellers outranking you on your own name Travellers searching your company by name are the cheapest bookings you will ever recover. Here is how to stop a reseller's ad from taking them first. 7 min GEO / AEO Why your travel site is invisible to AI assistants (and how to fix it) Travellers now ask ChatGPT and Perplexity who to book with, and get three names back. If yours isn't one of them, the problem is usually absence — not a low ranking. 9 min Retention Turn one booking into three: retention & email for Egyptian tour operators An OTA booking gives you a traveller once. A direct booking gives you their email — and every booking after it. Most operators win the first and let the rest expire. 8 min Direct booking OTA commission rates in 2026: what the platforms actually charge operators Rate cards, visibility programmes, and the difference between the number you were quoted and the number you pay. 7 min Technical SEO hreflang for Egyptian DMCs: stop your languages cannibalising each other The single most common technical mistake on Egyptian travel sites is source-market language versions that fight each other. Here is how hreflang fixes it — and how to do it without the traps. 9 min AI search How to get your travel brand cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity Travellers increasingly ask an assistant who to book with. Here is how to be one of the two or three names it returns. 10 min

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