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Google Tricks (for noobs)

Discussion in 'Google' started by frenchmen77, Dec 11, 2005.

  1. #1
    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 :)
     
    frenchmen77, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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  2. Momo

    Momo Peon

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    #2
    Nice list, I didn't know some of them! :)
     
    Momo, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    thanks, but I'm sure there is more!
     
    frenchmen77, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    fryman Kiss my rep

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    #6
    This has been discussed previously, a forum search goes a long way. :)
     
    mitchandre, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    aufordboy Well-Known Member

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    #7
    thanks....learned a few new ones!
     
    aufordboy, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    #8
    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
     
    Davilac, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    A few of those I didn't know about... Thank you.
     
    melaniejk, Dec 11, 2005 IP
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    sunchy Active Member

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    Agree, and use ;)
     
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    #11
    nice list!

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

    thanks for the info
     
    Bobafart, Dec 12, 2005 IP
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    keral82 Banned

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    #12
    Thanks for all this google commands. Nice list you have collected. I had bookmarked this topic for future use.

    Thanks once again.
     
    keral82, Dec 12, 2005 IP
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    Thanks, I only new a few of them
     
    Madness, Dec 12, 2005 IP
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    glad you guys like it :)
    I didn't know about googles site with them, thanks
     
    frenchmen77, Dec 13, 2005 IP
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    Does anyone know what the difference is between link:www.domain.com and @www.domain.com?
     
    Djohn, Dec 13, 2005 IP
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    Easy, link: shows what Google wants. @ shows links to your site, but as long ias is not used, Google doesn't give up with.
     
    Davilac, Dec 13, 2005 IP
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    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.
     
    ScrapbookPal, Dec 13, 2005 IP
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    Windows-Update-Advisor Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the new info:p
     
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    Thanks! Seems useful! :D
     
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    Thanks. Learned something I didn't knew :)
     
    swd, Dec 14, 2005 IP