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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

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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.

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.

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By Sveta V

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May 4, 2016

Great introduction to SEO, and great overview of past practices and the evolution of Google.

By Emily S

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Nov 4, 2022

Great delivery! I learned lots of basic skills. Would have loved a certificate of course ;)

By Anangela P B

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Feb 4, 2021

Está bien para una base para entender lo básico de SEO pero no entra en detalle o ejemplos.

By Frank R

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Mar 19, 2020

I would have liked more videos and less reading material. It's easier to learn with videos.

By Fabrizio Z

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Apr 9, 2020

Interesting as introductory course. It scratches only the surface but it is a start anyway

By Clarence P

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Apr 29, 2016

I audited this course to get relevant information for my career and it delivered. Thanks!

By PUJA C

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Oct 17, 2021

An excellent course for someone who wants to know the basics of SEO . Thank You Coursera

By Yiannis K

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Dec 19, 2019

Great course.The first week should be optional. I do not want to be an SEO professional.

By Shubham S

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Jun 14, 2020

Enroll if you are interested to know about the history and evolution of search engines

By Alyssa J

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Mar 28, 2022

Instructors speak very quickly and I found myself having to pause the video very often

By Akhila M U

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Nov 2, 2020

Good course, I wish it included some more fundamental topics for better understanding.

By Muheeb A

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Mar 6, 2016

Some of the terminologies just popped up without any explanations for what they mean

By Ryaen M

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Apr 5, 2022

This is a great course i now know how SEO works and what it is all about thanks yall

By Sunaina R

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Jun 17, 2020

Great course for SEO beginners , well explained and easy to understand and practice.

By Richie L

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Mar 27, 2024

Very informational. As a introductory course, it brushes on some common techniques.

By Jefranul I R

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Apr 20, 2021

I Thing More Thing can implement in this course but overall the first-class course.

By Manish A

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Jun 24, 2018

Very useful and nice introductory course to bring faimiliarity witht the SEO world.

By Gaurav Y

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May 10, 2021

Course and mentor are highly knowledgable and they share me right content for read

By Deleted A

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Jan 25, 2021

Good for understanding the fundamentals of SEO, but did not give hands-on practice

By VICKY

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Jul 31, 2020

Really Good and fantastic Course,Which made me understand the fundamentals of SEO.

By zia u

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May 31, 2020

This course is very much introductory & for the people who have no idea about SEO.

By Khandaker T A

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Jul 24, 2020

That will be a good introductory course for Search engine optimization beginners.

By Tony E

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Feb 7, 2018

Great insights on the industry. Good fundamental knowledge to have in my opinion.

By Elizabeth O

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Jun 19, 2016

Very good introduction to the SEO industry. It either gets you interested or not.

By Sau M J C

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Mar 6, 2022

It is an introduction course so the content is easy to understand and to follow.