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About the Course

Ever wonder how major search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo rank your website within their searches? Or how content such as videos or local listings are shown and ranked based on what the search engine considers most relevant to users? Welcome to the world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This course is the first within the SEO Specialization and it is intended to give you a taste of SEO with some fun practices to get seen in Google. You will be introduced to the foundational elements of how the most popular search engine, Google, works, how the SEO landscape is constantly changing and what you can expect in the future. You discuss core SEO strategies and tactics used to drive more organic search results to a specific website or set of websites, as well as tactics to avoid to prevent penalization from Google. We hope this taste of SEO, will entice you to continue through the Specialization!...

Top reviews

KP

Oct 2, 2023

This was a very helpful introductory course which helped me to understand further areas of study I need to pursue in order to be effective in this field! Thanks UC Davis, I really enjoyed this course.

SS

Aug 9, 2016

Great course, very informative!! I can tell the classes are starting to be structured differently though. Not too much meat to this first course... reserving my opinion, until I go through a few more.

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By STEFANIA V

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Dec 26, 2020

Very useful! I enjoy the courses. Learn a lot about how it works in the past and how it works now . That makes me think in a different way more professional.

By Muhammad A

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Aug 30, 2020

This course helped to gain a better understanding of how search engines work and how we can optimize our content for the users as well as the search engines.

By Waleed S K

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Apr 16, 2017

A great course for someone who has no idea about what is SEO and how it works. The course just covers the basics but it can serve as a good foundation stone!

By Shashi P

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Aug 11, 2016

Great information in the simplest way. This is an art to master this skill & I must say that our instructor is adept at it. Thanks for this wonderful course.

By Tammie A

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Jul 21, 2021

This is the first time that I have ever taken a course like this. I found it to be highly interesting and very helpful. I really enjoyed learning about SEO.

By Courtney D

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Aug 25, 2017

Great content and flow of the class. It provided a lot of useful information in a way that wasn't overwhelming or intimidating. Professor was great as well!

By Dabi C

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Mar 16, 2023

What I like about this course is the pace. You are not bombarded with a lot of information. It always considers your pace for a better learning experience.

By Karen J

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Feb 15, 2022

This was great information! Especially the section on determining your keywords and your buyer persona was practical and immediately applicable. Thank you

By BEATRIZ D D S P

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Aug 10, 2020

Conteúdo direto e objetivo, professores qualificados que compartilhar experiências de trabalho, permitindo um maior entendimento prático acerca do assunto.

By Amzal A

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Aug 9, 2020

Excellent Course.. I had zero knowledge on SEO before taking this course. Now I have a very good understanding. Willing to continue on this specialization.

By David B

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Jun 7, 2020

Learning about a complex and not easy to teach topic was made easy through UC Davis. I am looking forward to pursuing more classes part of SEO course path.

By Ashley H

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May 4, 2020

Great course to take, enjoyed the lectures and the reading. It was quite an interesting class that I know will be beneficial for me in my future endeavors.

By Amelie M

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Sep 22, 2017

I really want to say thank you, that you give anybody the chance to learn more about search engine optimization. Looking forward to see at the next course!

By Anik H

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Nov 5, 2022

It was a really informative, helpful and greatly oriented course to learn Introduction to Google SEO.

Thanks to both Coursera and UC Davis for this course.

By Nathan W

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May 13, 2022

This course was very interesting and extremely informative! I learned a lot and look forward to completing additional SEO course offerings from UC Davis.

By Terry C

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Nov 18, 2020

This was a great intro to get me into SEO. I appreciate the attention to what it takes to get a job in SEO plus the amount of history that was explained.

By Naman M

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Oct 11, 2020

This was very helpful to me, as I wanted to apply this in my latest project, a website. I will surely keep learning and will enroll for the other courses.

By comfortablynumb128

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Sep 7, 2020

Very good course for an absolute beginner- you get to learn the history, most importantly the best SEO practices and what working in the industry is like.

By Rhoshini S

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Aug 31, 2020

It was an extremely useful an beneficial course. I enjoyed it very much. I am very sure that the knowledge gained will help me in near future. Thank you.

By Neeraj

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Jun 13, 2020

I loved this course. this course is really helpful and highly suggested to you for pursuing. I m thankful to Coursera for providing this wonderful course.

By Geoffrey V

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Aug 7, 2019

Very didactic. SEO was seeming very technical for me, and a little bit complicated. But the teaching staff was able to make the matter easy to understand.

By Binny B

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Feb 6, 2017

easy to understand , up to date course materials

links to useful content , and even career advice to become better at seo makes this course one of its kind

By SUBHANG T B ( i B A

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Dec 15, 2023

This course helped me develop my skills and knowledge of the fundamentals of SEO, and the teaching style is impressive and easy to comprehend for anyone.

By Kapeesh V

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Sep 24, 2020

Great explanation of SEO. I've learnt a lot about the history of SEO and how different algorithms and corresponding updates made Google what it is today.

By Gabrielle T

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Aug 9, 2020

This was a nice way to get introduced to SEO! The pace was great and now I feel confident to move on in the SEO classes having covered all of the basics.