Google Search Techniques For Quick and Accurate Searching
One quality of an SEO specialist is being an internet savvy or in layman’s term internet addict. This quality is essential because it makes researching easy and accurate specially when navigating through search engines.
And of course, an SEO should have some techniques to navigate the World Wide Web. There are some search engine “operators” that will back you up in case you’re “lost” in the cyberspace and don’t know where to start.
You can actually narrow your searching by using these operators:
The ‘site:’ operator shows the site pages indexed by Google.
ex: site:linkersblog.com
The ‘link:’ operator shows all links from specified site.
ex: link:linkersblog.com
The ‘inurl:’ operator shows specific word or parameter that should be included in the url.
ex: inurl:/ link
The ‘intitle:’ operator shows specific word or words that should be included in the title:
ex: intitle:blog
The ‘intext:’ operator shows specific word or words that should be included in the content of a site.
ex: intext:linkbuilding
You can combine these operators in the search bar for specific results.
ex: inurl:/ link intitle:blog intext:linkbuilding
And you can also exclude some unwanted words by using the minus sign (-).
ex: inurl:/ link intitle:blog -intext:linkbuilding
There you have it and there’s more out there. Try to experiment with these operators for quick and accurate searching.
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November 30th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
This is an interesting topic. It’s always painful to watch people who don’t understand google try to search for something. This takes it a step further and shows everyone a few tricks.
I know this is SEO based but don’t forget the cool calculator and conversion tools.
-James
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December 1st, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Nice. First time I’ve heard of the ‘intext’ operator.
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December 1st, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Fast and accurate result! this is a great experiment, thanks for this ..
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December 2nd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I’ve never usd ‘intext’ before.
You can also use “site:domain ‘keyword’” to search for a specific keyword within a website.
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December 9th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Didn’t know you could combine operators like that. Nice work.
December 18th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
after using the link: together with the inurl technique , i keep getting kicked off google search temporarily =/
December 18th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
I just wrote down those operators down in my notebook. Excellent advice, I am sure they will be of use in the future. Good post.
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December 20th, 2009 at 12:12 am
thats really goog post , thanks ..
January 5th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Great tip to use multiple operators.
Thanks
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January 7th, 2010 at 2:18 am
I use this so often to the point that google disables my queries temporarily =/
January 17th, 2010 at 3:28 am
Great Techniques Mate, Really love that tips. Thanks for Sharing.
January 26th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
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July 13th, 2010 at 10:16 am
These are great things to search but the link: does not show all your links on Google, its better to use it on yahoo.