Car rental is the reverse of most service trades on Google in Saudi Arabia: huge volume and very low bids. تاجير سيارات alone brings 201,000 searches a month, its bids run from AED 0.69 to 2.89, and no row below goes past AED 4.38. Only one of the fifteen rows, car rental riyadh, names the city, so a Riyadh firm is buying into national demand.
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Office, shop and company name searches for car rental
| Keyword | Monthly searches | Top of page bid (AED) | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|
| تاجير سيارات | 201,000 | 0.69 to 2.89 | Medium |
| ايجار سيارات | 60,500 | 0.48 to 1.9 | Medium |
| مكتب تاجير سيارات | 33,100 | 0.53 to 1.71 | Low |
| لتأجير السيارات | 18,100 | 0.46 to 1.86 | Low |
| مكتب ايجار سيارات | 14,800 | 0.56 to 2.83 | Low |
| مكاتب تأجير سيارات | 14,800 | 0.58 to 2.41 | Medium |
| ايجار سياره | 12,100 | 0.49 to 1.71 | Medium |
| محل تاجير سيارات | 8,100 | 0.51 to 1.84 | Low |
| شركة تاجير سيارات | 5,400 | 0.63 to 2.53 | Medium |
| car rental riyadh | 4,400 | 0.93 to 3.83 | High |
| استئجار سيارة | 4,400 | 0.74 to 4.38 | Medium |
| سيارات ايجار | 4,400 | 0.53 to 2.45 | Medium |
| محل ايجار سيارات | 4,400 | 0.51 to 2.5 | Low |
| الوعلان لتأجير السيارات | 4,400 | 0.84 to 3.25 | Low |
| العجمي لتأجير السيارات | 4,400 | 0.59 to 1.81 | Low |
Source: Google Keyword Planner, Saudi Arabia, Google Search network, September 2026.
One city row, office wording and two company names
car rental riyadh is the only High competition row, at AED 0.93 to 3.83 with 4,400 searches. Wording that asks for an office or shop (مكتب, مكاتب, محل) appears in five rows totalling 75,200 searches, which suggests many people want a branch they can walk into. Two rows are other companies' names: الوعلان لتأجير السيارات and العجمي لتأجير السيارات, 4,400 searches each. The dearest click, استئجار سيارة at up to AED 4.38, is still cheap next to most trades.
Location targeting before keywords
Because almost every row is national, the first setting to get right is location, not keywords. Target people in or near Riyadh and choose presence rather than interest, so searches from other cities do not spend the budget. With bids this low, budget runs out on volume rather than price, so set a daily cap and read the search terms report from the first week. Put the office and shop rows in their own ad group with location assets and opening hours, because those searchers want an address. Leave out الوعلان and العجمي unless you are one of those companies; their searchers already know who they want. Split daily and monthly rental into separate ad groups if you offer both, since a monthly renter compares a different price. Add negatives for car sales, used cars and lease to own if you only rent.
Daily rate, deposit and kilometres for every car
Price is the first filter for a renter: the daily and monthly rate for each car, the deposit, the insurance cover and the kilometre allowance. Show those for every model with a real photo rather than a stock image. List the documents a renter must bring, the branch addresses in Riyadh and the hours each branch opens. A WhatsApp button for availability questions suits people who want a car today. Someone arriving from مكتب تاجير سيارات wants an office, so that page should put the nearest branch and its map above the fleet.
At under AED 4.38 a click, the risk in Riyadh rental is spending on searchers from other cities, not paying too much per click; the reference figures for Saudi and UAE advertisers show how cheap that is against other sectors. Firms with several branches can email their fleet and branch list for targeting drawn around each branch rather than the whole country.
Sources & References
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About the author
Big AL Consulting is a performance marketing agency in Dubai and a Google Partner since 2021. We run paid media across Google, Meta, Snapchat, TikTok, LinkedIn and ChatGPT ads for brands in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and have managed $25M+ in ad spend.
Written by Ahmad Alshareefi, Founder
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