Very well explained!

Great course!

It's not an easy course for a beginner who has no experience in SEO or web field at all. But with a little commitment, you can pass it. I would suggest to the creators to make this course a bit more interacting for learners like me. I will definitely continue my specialization to reach new skills which I will align with my other digital marketing experience.

Great introductionary course from people in the business. Like I say it's introductionary and gives you some useful tips and ways on how you can improve yourself in this field so you can get acquainted with SEO. Only down point is that SEO changes so quickly and resoruces are from 1-2 years ago usually.

Although it is a great introductory course on SEO, i would like the author to emphasize less on non-commercial content creation like blog posting and more on real life business examples.

This was a short course but one with a lot of material and topics to cover. It serves as a great primer for anyone wanting to gain a better understanding of SEO and its relevance.

It was allright, but I would like it more, if it had more practice oriented things.

this course clears the fundamental concepts very well

Very good course for building foundation in SEO.

Great experience

Good course

Interesting, but too generic. Without proceeding in the following courses, this one is totally unuseful. Conversely, if you want to have a deep learning about SEO, this could be a great introduction to this wide world

Very basic. Week 1-3 was a bit dry and much focused on the history of SEO. I don't think it has any practical use for people who are interested to practice SEO. Maybe the next course is better

Full of links to external information sources like Wikipedia (seriously?), Forums, YouTube and other web pages. With no experience in SEO it is hard to dig into dense theoretical cloud.

Quizz questions are often confusing. Week 4 content is not really SEO specific, but basic persona building.

I'm not sure what practical knowledge I am getting out of this course.

The focus of the lectures do not always match the questions. I consider myself a good learner, I found out I've missed things that were on the quiz section and have gone blank.

Often quizzes were not graded accurately which can be very deceptive on Coursera's part.

Considering the course is through UC Davis I expected a better experience. I think there should be small either hands on or videos on how to apply optimization. This is an introduction to Google SEO there was no mention that you should have a background as a Web designer. I don't think this is a good introductory course.

The Videos, discussions, and quizzes did not help to set learning. Discussions should be more about helping the student to learn and critically think about the subject. From the discussion boards you can see there is no engagement. I encourage the creators of this course to think about how to better engage the student.

A module where you can practice optimization would be a good first step. A sample website to explore and to improve to have a working learning sandbox would help the learner to understand the material that is just read on a video. Not sure if it is worth the investment. I came to learn not to just get a completion certificate.

The first 2 weeks of this course aren't really practical as the 1st week merely discusses SEO Career opportunities which would be better discussed after the course when the students are already equipped with knowledge. For the 2nd week, it mainly dealed with history of internet, websites, and search engines which I think can be discussed in only one video so that more practicable topics can be discussed. The speaker doesn't really speak that clearly and sometimes you have to guess what she's saying. The videos are also not as informative as I would like and a lot of it consists of the speaker just saying "I put a link where you can learn this" instead of actually discussing it in the video. I'm well into the 3rd week and I still have no idea how search engine works, how to optimize it, and how to have my website rank better on the search engine.

Slow-paced, stuffed with "filler", does very little to introduce students to actual hands-on SEO in any way. No exercises, no detailed examples -- really frustrated that I spent money on this course. The "intro" to the history and the field as an evolving career path -- this could have been covered much more quickly, but it was used to make the course longer. Really disappointed in this offering from a good university.

The course was focused on a subject that I was excited to learn about, but unfortunately, the content was overly theoretical .

The course presenter relied heavily on slides with minimal content and seemed to simply read through the material without adding any additional context or emotion. As a result, it was hard to stay engaged with the material and difficult to retain the information being presented.

I failed to figure out how to translate the theory (presented in the lectures) into practice (the only assignment, a website audit). I would have benefited from another application assignment that was a stepping stone to the full-blown audit. Information was interesting, but not sure this is a good course for someone new to the nitty gritty of SEO.

The first week was absolutely not relevant to someone like me who is looking to learn about SEO to improve my copywriting and has no desire to change careers to SEO. That was a big waste of my time. I felt the only really helpful practical modules were at the end of the course, and too much time was wasted discussing the industry and its history.

it was too general a lot of unused and extra information

i would say about 30 percent of this course is useful in workplace at best

not recommended for people who are familiar with marketing and management skills because of too many redundant topics. me personally rather a course that go in depth of how to use the software that improve the seo.

Not what I expected, it focuses too much on the history of SEO rather than on bringing practical tools. It feels outdated and it provides old links. It's also quite boring, it is too obvious the teacher is reading throug, she provides no emotion or inspiration to keep on. The first part of the job interviews should have been a warning.