What you’ll learn
This free beginner course builds a clear foundation in SEO — enough to understand how search works, optimize a page at a basic level, and prepare for your certification exam. Advanced depths live in paid courses.
- Understand how search engines crawl, index and rank pages
- Identify keywords and search intent for basic research
- Optimize titles, headings, URLs, links and image alt text
- Learn crawling, indexing, sitemaps and robots.txt concepts
- Get an introduction to backlinks and ethical SEO practices
- Use a basic SEO checklist and prepare for the exam