Although informative, this course is dated... SEO courses should be updated with new information every 3 months. Additionally, this course focuses on history and career information.. but I feel the career information should come in the 4th course for this speciality. How would someone even know if they're interested in an SEO career before they've delved into it?

A nice overview and history of SEO, its importance and information on the algorithm updates throughout the years, but does not include any practical elements of implementing SEO to your site or client sites.

Personally, I was hoping to learn about SEO through doing hands-on assignments. This course seemed very repetitive and not very engaging.

Course lacks real example and full of theory. It lacks steps of what actually needs to be done to achieve SEO.

Too much focus on history and non-useful elements like job interview and career choices (the latter technically should belong to a capstone course). Really didn't learn much and felt like there's no practical approach at all. The lecture format is boring and repetitive, and can be summed up into "here's what we'll talk about", talk about it, and ending with "here's what we talked about". The transcripts (which by the way have a number of mistakes) are the only materials available, the rest is just external links to a lot of other reading. New concepts/words are thrown out there without prior explanation, it seems like they were just forgotten and not covered in advance. Poorly structured. Basically, it's filler.

It's awesome. I had totally no idea on SEO. Now that I have completed this course, I have gained too much interest in this SEO field and now I can't wait to learn the deeper things of 'Search Engine Optimization' .

So, I'm planning to take on the next course and see if I can hold my interest on this topic. Thanks to all the course mentors ( Specially Ms. REBEKA ) to provide us with all the necessary things relevant to SEO.

I hope the next course will be of more interest to me.

Thanks a lot to all who are working relentlessly behind these courses.

Great deal of learning in terms of concepts presented and wonderful experience to learn from top-notched industry experts. The best course to get a deeper insight of SEO profession and carer paths and the way the algorithms are explained and resources are combined is truly impressive an appreciable. Many many thanks with regards to Instructor Rebekah May and her colleague.

Before Joining this course, I hadn't have any knowledge about seo. But after completing this course, I get to know many areas and factors that affect searches and usability of the website. I have realized the importance of keywords, algorithm updates, content, links, branding and more.

Thank you so much for providing these information:)

Excellent information. Rebekah did a fantastic job: She spoke clearly and naturally and was a pleasure to listen to. The deep dive into the origins of search really helped me understand why and how SEO works as it does today.

Content is good. But you need to pay to be able to answer quiz. In other courses of that specialization track you even need to pay to do peer assessments. It is a shame that education and securing the learn success seems not to be the focus anymore - it seems that focus turned towards monetization.

So before taking the course be aware that you can not get a participation rate of 100% due to locked quizzes, which will only be unlocked once you paid.

This course was not what I expected. It only covered SEO theory, history and "day in the life for a SEO manager" which are all things I could have spent 2 hours on WIKI or reading a tech article. There was no practical applications, exercises and real life working case studies. I wanted practical knowledge that I could apply to my job, not a history lesson. Very disappointed that I wasted this time.

I thought this was a how to SEO course. Too much useless history.

This is an amazing course. I have learnt a whole new world with respect to SEO. The videos and course delivery was of a professional manner. The content was interesting throughout the course. The add-ons for further reading/links/blogs is also very beneficial.

It keep me focused and left me continuing clicking next, next and next.

I am hoping to further my learning curve with coursera.

Great production guys!

Thank you

Amazing course, good introduction to SEO. This course give you a fundamental understanding of how Google ranks websites and what you need to do to improve website rankings. I look forward to completing the other courses in this specialization

This course is very indepth and useful. I highly recommend it. For the next students, I just ask that the instructor review some of the quiz questions that trip up students because the wording needs to be more clear. Thank you!

A great fundamental breakdown of SEO strategies that you need to know in order to further understand the field. Very well designed course that is perfect for someone who is new to the field of SEO!

I really liked how the course is able to insert someone that doesn't know anything about SEO into the right path, I been searching for a course like this a lot time ago and I'm happy to found it.

This course provides thorough and easy-to-understand explanations on the basics of SEO. I learned a lot in this course and will definitely keep studying the rest of SEO specialization!

Excellent materials. I have got a clear purpose of SEO and probably of my eventual career in it!

Thanks very much, Rebecca

I have really learnt alot from this course and can now confidently talk about SEO as a beginner. Great course content

I really enjoyed this course, because it gave me some in-depth understanding of SEO and how different engines work!

The subject matter is comprehensive, well structured, and easy to understand.

Very good course with good content... really enjoyed it.

I really am enjoying the course and learning a lot.

Like this course so much, fully enjoy it