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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 MD T A T

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Dec 13, 2021

Well detailed and elaborative. I really like this course, I learn a lot in this course and I believe it will add value in my career growth.

By Monika P

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Sep 5, 2020

Great content, useful materials & accurate / relevant to today examples. I am satisfied and happy for completing this course. 5 more to go!

By Alessandro P

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Mar 22, 2020

A solid foundation in SEO with many external links to explore. These are professional websites that also SEO pros use to keep them updated.

By shaz s

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Jan 23, 2020

It´s a great course for a beginner like me. The lessons are easy to understand, relevant and interesting. Well-explained and comprehensive.

By Mayank M

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Dec 8, 2019

It was fun learning about careers in the evolution of SEO.

The course was quite informative, Overall I enjoyed learning from the instructor.

By Jack B

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May 10, 2018

I really liked how while watching the videos that there was an interactive transcript that would allow me to go back to any parts I missed.

By Anushka S

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Aug 1, 2017

Even SEO becomes easy when Ms. May explains it.

Thank you!

This course is really useful and easy to learn. If I could I would give 15 stars.

By HANINE E

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Jan 28, 2023

Why I got my certificate without writing my name?

I prefer to have my name on the certificate please" Hanine Estaytie" .

Thanks, in advance.

By Ahmet M A

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Jan 10, 2021

The course gives what it says it will give. It's about fundamentals of SEO and this course has done an amazing job teaching basics of SEO.

By Pavan P

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Jul 17, 2020

The course was really awesome. Our instructor are having great knowledge and they shared everything important and required with materials.

By Muhammad A K

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Apr 9, 2020

it is a good course course for beginners. it allow to understand basic algorithms, keyword strategy and how to find a job in seo industry.

By Naval D

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Jul 2, 2018

Great course.Please provide the content of videos as a ppt like other courses do. this help us to quickly revise the course and about SeO.

By Alyona F

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Feb 8, 2017

The introduction course was very easy. I've already started the Second course (SEO Fundamentals) and I'm learning a lot. Thanks Rebekah :)

By PhÆ°Æ¡ng T

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Oct 19, 2022

Very informative and helpful course on understanding Google SEO. It helps me to re-evalutate/analyze website data to improve my content.

By Bipin S

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Mar 16, 2021

its an excellent course to get started with SEO!, i really appreciate the UC DAVIS team to put up such beneficial course for us learners.

By Ibtisam A

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Dec 16, 2020

Gives an overview of the SEO Industry and how things work in this Industry. A must course to attend before going more into the SEO field.

By ivy t

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Jan 18, 2017

This entire specialisation is the best I've taken in Coursera. Very well organised with practical and highly useful knowledge. Thank you!

By Khubaib K

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Sep 27, 2016

Excellent Course. made my basics and know-about of SEO really really strong. I never knew SEO very well until I did not take this course.

By Deleted A

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Aug 4, 2020

It was a great experience to be a part of this course. I liked the pedagogy and would love to continue and complete this specialization.

By Rushab G

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May 16, 2020

This course really helped me to understand how algorithm works and it actually also solved my problem relating to SEO thank you UC DAVIS

By Gueno G

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Apr 19, 2020

The course was great. It is built very well, easy to understand and gives you a lot of information and very useful additional materials.

By Shruti S

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Apr 6, 2020

It was really very helpful for me to understand how google works to identify the sites, and how it's algorithm works. Thank you so much.

By Adil S

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Dec 25, 2016

One of the most usefull courses found on Search Engine Optimization. Well developed and detailed. It covers the topics very effectively.

By Nur A K

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Jul 11, 2021

A really great course with rich materials and easy-to-understand videos. Thank you! and also good luck on your SEO endeavor, every one!

By Bey P

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Dec 18, 2020

Love it! But would also like a more updated version of the course, some references link back to articles written back in 2014 and 2015.