SEO Related Courses on Coursera

Coursera is an online learning platform that was founded by Stanford University. It offers a huge number of online courses from too many top universities all over the world. It has courses on Search Engine Optimization as well from many top universities. We are going to mention them here for you. So let’s start.

1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Specialization by UC Davis | University of California

Course Link: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/seo 

UC Davis offers 5 courses in a series. Any interested student can start this course. It will need no pre-knowledge of you on SEO. It starts at the beginner level.

5 Courses are:

a) Introduction to Search Engine Optimization

• Rating: This course has a rating of 4.6 out of 5 rated by 5 thousand 813 learners. 
• Level: Beginner
• Students: 130K
• Language: English [Subtitles are available in Greek and Arabic as well]
• Deadlines: Flexible 
• Instructor: Rebekah May 
• 20 Hours to Complete 

b) Search Engine Optimization Fundamentals

• Rating: 4.7 from 2,019 Learners. 
• 30 Hours to complete. 
• Language: English [Subtitles are available in Portuguese, Turkish, Nepali. 

c) Optimizing a Website for Search:

• 47% of learners started a new career after completing this course.
• Intermediate Level
• 25 hours to complete
• Main Language English
• Subtitles are available in French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish as well.

d) Advanced Content and Social Tactics to Optimize SEO.

• 50% of learners started a new career
• The instructor is Eric Enge 
• Flexible deadlines like others
• Intermediate Level
• 18 hours to complete
• Main Language is English
• Subtitles are available in French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish as well.

e) Website Optimization Client Report Project.

• 62% of total students started a new career finishing these all courses. 
• Rating 4.7 and students are 9,743 till 8 September 2020.
• Approximately 47 hours to complete. 
• Only English is the course language. 

The learner will have unlimited access to all courses in the specialization. Per month you need to pay $49 USD to continue. All the courses’ certificates of this package are shareable and deadlines are flexible. You can change the deadline as you feel comfortable.

2. Advance Search Engine Optimization Strategies by UC Davis | University of California. 

This course is also offered by UC Davis Extension as the previous one. Some information about this course is:

• Instructed by Dave Lloyd 
• 25,412 students.
• Intermediate level
• Approximately 26 hours to complete.
• The language is English. 
• Need to pay $79 USD to gain a certificate. 
• Link is https://www.coursera.org/learn/seo-strategies 

3. Increase SEO Traffic with WordPress | Coursera Project Network 

This course is rated 4.5 and 4,107 already enrolled till 8 September 2020. The steps of this Course are:
Setting site visibility to increase SEO.

1. Changing permalinks or slugs on a blog.
2. Changing permalinks or slugs on a web page
3. Inserting blog headings to blog using keywords.
4. Formatting an SEO friendly blog heading.
5. Adding internal links to a blog.
6. Do Add categories and tags to a blog.
7. Then, add Alt Text to images.
8. And finally, Navigate website analytics

The instructor of this course is Stacey Shanklin-Langford. This will take only 2 hours to complete the whole course. But the level is Advanced. Learners need to pay $9.99 USD for this.
Click here to Enroll

4. Social Media Advertising | University of Colorado Boulder

Having 14,721 students enrolled and a rating of 4.5, this is another course that is not directly related to SEO but still will help one to get more traffic to one’s site by using social media advertising in a proper way. This course’s instructor is Chris J. Vargo, Assistant Professor of College of Media, Communication, and Information. It will take almost 10 hours to complete. It is a beginner level course. It’s a $49 USD course.

Click Here to Enroll Social Media Advertising by the University of Colorado Boulder. 

5. Getting Started in Google Analytics by Coursera Project Network:

After completing this $9.99 USD course you will able to set up a Google Analytics account and add your website. You will also understand how Google Analytics organizes data and also can interpret the audience. It will need just about 1 hour to complete

Google Analytics is a must for SEO. So click here to learn more about it. 

See Also:

• 150 SEO Factors to Get a Higher Google Search Rank
• 20 Free and Trusted Keyword Research Tools
• Google Panda and Panda Penalty
• How Google Search Works