Do you want to make your search on Google more efficient?
Here are some of the advanced search techniques that will save your time and will help Google to match sites for a given query.
Advanced Google Search Techniques
- Looking for pages that have the words search engine optimization?
Use the notation: search engine optimization.
- Pages that have the word search or the word engine or the word optimization.
Use the notation: or
i.e. search or engine or optimization
- Pages that have the exact phrase search engine optimization.
Use the notation: " "
i.e. "search engine optimization"
- Pages that have the words search engine but not the word optimization.
Use the notation: - (minus)
i.e. search engine -optimization
- Pages that have the words search engine optimization and the word marketing, adding a + to marketing it means that every match must have the word marketing even if Google wants to discard it as irrelevant.
Use the notation: +
i.e. search engine optimization + marketing
- Pages that have the word optimization and synonyms.
Use the notation: ~
i.e. ~optimization
- Pages that have the word SEO or the word SEM or the word Marketing
Use the notation: SEO|SEM|Marketing ( Google sees "SEO" or "SEM" or "Marketing" ).
To group search terms together use pharantesis:
i.e.
("SEO" or "SEM" or "Marketing")
- Pages that point to a specified website, i.e.: www.websearchtechniques.com
Use the notation: link:
i.e. link:www.websearchtechniques.com
- To find info about a specified page, i.e.www.websearchtechniques.com
use the notation: info:
i.e.
info:www.websearchtechniques.com.
- To find related pages to a specified website, i.e. www.websearchtechniques.com
use the notation: related:
i.e. related:www.websearchtechniques.com
- To find cached page of a specified website
use the notation: cache:
i.e. cache:www.websearchtechniques.com
- Search for keywords within document titles
use the notation: allintitle:
i.e. allintitle:"search engine optimization"
- Search for pages that contain a specific word in URLs
use the notation: inurl:
i.e. inurl:SEO
- Search for pages that contain a specific word in the anchor tags
use the notation: inanchor:
i.e. inanchor:SEM
- Search for pages that contain a specific word in body text
use the notation: allintext:
i.e. allintext:SEO
- Search for pages that contain specific word and exclude adult content
use the notation: safesearch:
i.e. safesearch:body
- Search pages that contain a specific word within a number range
use the notation: #...#,
i.e. condominium Vancouver $200,000...$300,000
- Search pages that contain a specific word within specific date range
use the notation: daterange:
i.e. condominium Vancouver daterange:199801-200801 - Search for web sites with a specified domain, i.e. .gov
use the notation: site:.gov - If you are looking for a code of a specific country,
use the notation: site:.ca"Vancouver"
- If you are looking for a phone number,
use the notation: phonebook:,
i.e. phonebook:Web Search Techniques Canada
- If you are looking for a business phone number,
use the notation: bphonebook:
i.e. bphonebook:Web Search Techniques CA
- If you are looking for a residential phone number,
use the notation: rphonebook:
i.e. rphonebook:Stephen Harper Ottawa Ontario Canada
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