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.
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.
By Jessica B
•Mar 20, 2016
Quite good
By MD R C
•May 7, 2021
Too long
By Duc N
•Aug 19, 2021
it's ok
By alaa h
•Aug 14, 2020
good
By Manali S B
•Jun 1, 2020
GOOD
By Rokkam A
•Aug 13, 2019
Good
By N S P
•May 3, 2023
The Coursera course content viewing attempts failed, crashed, or locked up repeatedly. In the two weeks of the course, I used a high-seed LAN connection, which was stable for all sites except Coursera. I counted the number of times that the video feeds crashed and had to be rebooted: 158 times.
The number of times that I heard any response from Coursera to repeated messages: ZERO
This is a 100% automated course with zero tech support or feedback. The “Report an Issue” message center yields zero response.
If you take this course, you have to deal with the repeated crashes by yourself. I found that it took more than 30 minutes to get a 7-minute video to feed.
The concept of online learning with multiple universities worldwide has great potentiall.
Unfortunately, however, due to the above chronic failures, I cannot recommend this course or platform to any of my friends.
By Lucian P
•Feb 7, 2024
The instructor must add a summary with strictly the most important details just before each week's quiz. There is a tone of unnecessary information! She should also try to be more energetic because really, I could hardly concentrate when I listened to her. The most important thing she must do is add a template for each of the following statements: "What you'll learn Critique the role of advertisements and corporate funding in the development of search Compare and contrast the functionality of search engine algorithms updates Write your own content for a website that will improve search results Develop an optimization strategy following best practices for a client to implement to help increase their ranking "
By Amanda M
•Feb 23, 2021
The organization of this course was ineffective. It started with careers in SEO, even though it hadn't yet taught us anything about SEO to give us an idea of whether those would be interest to us. It then spent a week on history involving a lot of memorizing names of people and systems which is not very practical. Then a ton of content was crammed into the second to last week and only a small amount into the final week. Over all, I signed up for an introduction to SEO but didn't learn much practical information about SEO, particularly from the videos. I would not recommend this course as an introduction to the skills of SEO.
By Prajjwal M
•Oct 31, 2020
I've been practically doing SEO for over 5 years now. I started with Internet Marketing and SEO when I was 14 years old.
I expected to learn some practical things. Unfortunately, this course is more of a "History" of SEO & Job Search than an introduction to SEO.
I feel doing the whole specialization would make sense, but not this course individually.
Almost no practical aspects of SEO were discussed. Pure theory.
The readings of the course have been carefully picked and are worth a read. It will take up the majority of your time and that'll be worthwhile.
By Emma P
•Aug 25, 2023
This is very much a personal reflection but I would have benefitted far more from guided tutorials. While I know what factors to consider in SEO, I still wouldn't know where to begin with optimising. That might indicate a need to brush up on web development skills but I do think it would have been great to work through an example alongside the trainer.
By Luke G
•Oct 21, 2018
It's somewhat harder to learn information and retain it when the speaker is stumbling over their content. Additionally, there are ways to show SEO optimization in a more interactive way. I think this course could be improved with a more thoughtful look at the content.
By Debbie
•Jan 22, 2021
This class seemed like a lot of filler and was a bit unecessary. All of the most important info in this class could be have been put together in a starter module for a more advanced class instead. I finished all four weeks of the class in 5 days. Meh.
By Yuval D
•Jul 30, 2020
The majority of the information is not useful in both academic or practical manner.
Too much is spent on career advice and historical review.
Very little value, theory or tactics is provided to anyone who needs to actually implement SEO.
By Ksenia K
•Aug 8, 2024
Little real knowledge is provided, just a lot of links, without any skills or information that could be usefull. I am glad I only audited this course, otherwise it will be like losing money.
By Kristina
•Feb 18, 2021
Good for general knowledge but still do not know how to start optimizing my website. Rather historical than practical
By milton c
•Aug 23, 2020
This was more like the history of SEO, you don't really learn too much about the hands-on technical aspects of SEO.
By VIKAS T
•May 23, 2019
Teaching Quality Is Very Low, Information is also lacked, By The Way Tutor words are not understable.
By Mandy W
•Apr 12, 2021
not looking to start a career in SEO. this was geared toward a career not as a skillset to learn. :(
By Hala A
•Oct 4, 2021
Very theoretical and history oriented with no hands on. The career part was totally irrelevant.
By Dan h
•Apr 26, 2017
This course is pretty old considering how fast this field changes,
By Aleksandra S
•May 12, 2016
Good content, but blocked quizes in free version is bad idea.
By Laura T d M C
•Mar 28, 2019
Please review the transcriptions, there are mistakes.
By Syeda A N
•Jul 2, 2020
I think the first two weeks were useless.