Google Tricks (for noobs)

I'm still kinda new to running a website, but here are some tricks I should have known from the beginning

1. link:www.yoursite.com - Show's you some/most of the links google counts to your page. Handy to find out who is linking to you, or whos linking to the competition
2. related:www.yoursite.com - find sites google deems related to any given site
3. site:www.yoursite.com - search the pages of a specific site
4. allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url
5. inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
6. allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
7. intitle: kind of like allintitle, but only for the next word. "intitle:webmasterworld google" finds only pages with webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
8. cache:url gives you googles cashed (what google has on record) of a site
9. info:url will give you some info about a given site
10. spell: - does a spellcheck (you don't have to do this, google will spellcheck any words searched)
11. stocks: does a search for stocks
12. filetype: does a search for a specific file type, or, if you put a - in front of it, it won't list any results with that filetype
13. daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.
14. maps: shortcut to do a google maps search
15. phone: searches for anything that looks like a phonenumber
16. allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title
17. allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title


Feel free to add anything you want

 

Nice list, I didn't know some of them!

 

thanks, but I'm sure there is more!

 

Google has some here:
http://www.google.com/help/operators.html

I also found some here:
googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html

 

http://www.google.com/help/operators.html


EDIT
- lol, beat me to it

 

This has been discussed previously, a forum search goes a long way.

 

thanks....learned a few new ones!

 

allinanchor:keyword : list results ordered by number of anchor texts as keyword
@www.domain.com : Displays all links to the page, better than link command

 

A few of those I didn't know about... Thank you.

 

Agree, and use

 

nice list!

I thought I knew most of them but there are a few there that I just learned

thanks for the info

 

Thanks for all this google commands. Nice list you have collected. I had bookmarked this topic for future use.

Thanks once again.

 

Thanks, I only new a few of them

 

glad you guys like it
I didn't know about googles site with them, thanks

 

Does anyone know what the difference is between link:www.domain.com and @www.domain.com?

 

Easy, link: shows what Google wants. @ shows links to your site, but as long ias is not used, Google doesn't give up with.

 

I've just been using an seo program, but its nice to know how to do some of those searches if I'm not in the office.

 

Thanks for the new info

 

Thanks! Seems useful!

 

Thanks. Learned something I didn't knew