Providing services as an SEO expert

06 Mar 2023 Ref-No#: 5013

Assalamualaikum, I am a 22-year-old boy from Bangladesh, belonging to a lower-middle-class family. Unfortunately, my father has been severely ill for the past two years, which has made it difficult for me to handle the cost of his treatment and our household expenses. So, I have been trying to find ways to earn a good amount of money, which led me to learn about search engine optimization (SEO). Alhamdulillah, I am almost done with my SEO course. SEO is the process of optimizing a website to appear at the top of search engine results, which can help attract more visitors and customers to a website. However, my question is whether it would be permissible (halal) for me to do SEO for a website that contains both halal and haram things. For instance, a website of a restaurant that sells both halal and haram foods. Note: I’m not selling anything; I’m just helping the restaurant rank their website, which will eventually lead to them getting more customers and selling both halal and haram foods. Also, what about a website that primarily focuses on halal activities such as health and fitness, hotels, or a blog website but has some pictures of women inappropriately dressed? It’s worth noting that I’m not uploading any such pictures or anything on the website. I’m just trying to help the website get a better ranking. Will it fall under the category of me helping them directly and make it haram or will it fall under me helping them indirectly and make it halal? Additionally, I mostly work on freelance websites such as Fiverr, where buyers come to me for SEO services. As a result, I cannot choose my clients, and if a customer approaches me, and I’m not sure if doing SEO for them would be halal or not, cancelling an order of clients in such websites harm the gig which can lead to me getting no orders at all. Please help me, what should I do in these situations? JazakAllah Khair.”

Answer

Wa’alaykum as Salām wa raḥmatullāhi wa barakātuhu,

If the client is doing Ḥalāl work as well or providing permissible services, then it is permissible to do SEO for their website.

  • Hidden
  • Hidden
  • Hidden