SEOSelf-pacedBeginner
This course is listed in the TrustMyCourse directory. It has not been independently verified by TrustMyCourse, and nothing on this page should be read as a verification result.
on developers.google.com
You will continue to Google Search Central. TrustMyCourse does not sell this course.
Google's own orientation to search optimisation, published in Search Central rather than sold as a course. Eleven sections cover how Search finds and organises pages, what a site owner can influence, how images and video are handled, and a deliberate section on the things Google believes are not worth focusing on. It is documentation rather than video, open without an account, and its authority comes from being written by the search engine itself rather than from inference about it.
Site owners and developers who want the search engine's own account of what matters before reading anyone else's.
Recorded from the provider’s published description of the course.
Verification
TrustMyCourse has not reviewed this course. That is not a finding about it. No review has taken place, so there is nothing to report either way.
The course details on this page come from public information about the course. They have not been checked against the course itself, and no TrustMyCourse verification has been carried out.
TrustMyCourse does not sell this course, does not rank it against others, and publishes no rating or score for it.
The course
Summarised by TrustMyCourse from public course information. Wording is our own, not the provider’s.
What the crawler does, and the expectation that results do not change immediately.
Making pages reachable and structuring a site so its shape is legible.
The section arguing that content quality is the substance of the work.
Influencing how a page is presented, and optimising media.
An explicit list of common preoccupations the guide argues against.
Provider
Google Search Central
Google's documentation and guidance for site owners about how Google Search crawls, indexes and ranks pages.
Any TrustMyCourse verification applies to the course on this page, not to the provider as a whole and not to its other courses. TrustMyCourse does not endorse Google Search Central.
More in this category
VerifiedVerification reference TMC-2026-00018
Ahrefs
SEO
Fifteen lessons on link building, presented as the advanced counterpart to the introductory module inside Ahrefs’ beginner SEO course. Free, and explicitly aimed at people past the basics.
See the verification record
VerifiedVerification reference TMC-2026-00019
Ahrefs
SEO
Twelve lessons on optimising for answer engines rather than for the classic ten blue links, which is one of the newer areas where published training is still thin. Free on the Ahrefs Academy.
See the verification record
VerifiedVerification reference TMC-2026-00009
Ahrefs
SEO
The longest course on the Ahrefs Academy at forty lessons and close to five hours, covering blogging as a business acquisition channel rather than as writing practice. Free.
See the verification record