Google Search basics

Google search techniques:

Site: google.com //sites listed by google

site:.com // all com sites

site:a.com/b // results from this folder

inurl:seo inurl:company =

allinurl:seo company

intitle:seo intitle:company =

allintitle:seo company

inanchor:seo inanchor:company =

allinanchor:seo company

filetype:pdf

ext:pdf

seo * directory returns "seo free

directory”, "seo friendlydirectory”, etc.

show you the page title and description, and

invite you to view its related pages, incoming links, and page cached version

Combine these options: [site:yourdomain.com intitle:keyword1] + [site:yourdomain.com intitle:keyword2] (There should be no space between colon sign and the next word Find the ".gov” URLs which let users post comments site:.gov "write comments" | "post comment"

[site:yourdomain.com intitle:keyword1] + [site:yourdomain.com intitle:keyword2] (There should be no space between colon sign and the next word

Find the ".gov” URLs which let users post comments site:.gov "write comments" | "post comment"

Find the ".gov” URLs which let users post comments

Actual number of results: Note that the number of results Google 'thinks' it has and shows on the first page is usually incorrect. To get the exact number append "&start=990&filter=0”to page URL. It will show the last page of results and correct number.

Note that the number of results Google 'thinks' it has and shows on the first page is usually incorrect. To get the exact number append "&start=990&filter=0”to page URL. It will show the last page of results and correct number.

Uncover subscriber only/deleted content(say in experts exchange and other site) just plug in the URL (or go to Google translate https://translate.google.com/translate?prev=&hl=en&u=URL-GOES-HERE&sl=es&tl=en

Country specific result add "&gl=COUNTRY_CODE” at the end of the result US, CA, UK etc.

Usage Learn whether the site has canonicalization problems site:domain.com -inurl:www Find most powerful page for a keyword site:domain.com keyword Search for related forums inurl:forum OR inurl:forums seo You can come up with many more examples Useful operators in other search engines Yahoo Inlinks: For backlinks Bing Loc: Location specific search SEO loc:CA Bing Linkfromdomain: Outbound links Linkfromdomain:domain.com Bing IP: Find Your Neighbors Make sure no one is spamming, or your site's SEO performance may end up paying the penalty for sharing the same IP

Search for related forums inurl:forum OR inurl:forums seo You can come up with many more examples

Useful operators in other search engines Yahoo Inlinks: For backlinks Bing Loc: Location specific search SEO loc:CA Bing Linkfromdomain: Outbound links Linkfromdomain:domain.com Bing IP: Find Your Neighbors Make sure no one is spamming, or your site's SEO performance may end up paying the penalty for sharing the same IP

Useful operators in other search engines

Vocabulary: Stop words: words which are very common and Google won't use in the search query (for example and, for, or etc.) Vertical search engines (onebox search): for one type of search say image, video, map, news, blog , book, job etc. Having higher rank in these searches is comparatively easier, and it helps your "web” search Universal search / blended search: Integrating various vertical searches (Introduced in 2007 by Google Meta search engines: Combine results from major search engines. Ex. Dogpile, metacrawler. Not significant to SEO

Stop words: words which are very common and Google won't use in the search query (for example and, for, or etc.)

Vertical search engines (onebox search): for one type of search say image, video, map, news, blog , book, job etc. Having higher rank in these searches is comparatively easier, and it helps your "web” search

Having higher rank in these searches is comparatively easier, and it helps your "web” search

Universal search / blended search: Integrating various vertical searches (Introduced in 2007 by Google

Meta search engines: Combine results from major search engines. Ex. Dogpile, metacrawler. Not significant to SEO