Google tricks everyone should know about.

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

 

allinanchor:shows your ranking based on the anchor text in incoming links

 

Guys, thanks a lot for this. Bookmarked it!

What I use the most is link: and site:.

 

I do this when search for something
put what you want to search in " " ,which will search and send better results. Only search pages and found that keywords, they are next to each other, not separated.
ex: "webmaster forum"

You can do this too "webmaster forum" + "more keyword"
search and send pages that found |webmaster forum| and |more keyword|

Just do a normal search and then do another search with " " and you will see the different

There are so many search tricks in Google that I learned at school but I don't remember.

 

you can find the rest and complete on http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html

Thanks for open this thread.

 

It best to use link:www.yoursite.com in yahoo's search engine, yahoo has a more accurate count of your links.

 

The number 1 doesn't show all your links in the big G. It is far better if applied in yahoo site explorer. Anyway, Thanks for sharing those stuffs.

 

Hi guys, good for sharing those stuffs.

 

Nice Stuffs !!!!
It's really helpful to search in Google.com

 

I remember listing these down on my notes but I missed most of what you mentioned ..thanks

 

I didn't know you can do this, thanks... I've been experimenting and the things i'm finding are really interesting

 

Nice, good for sharing.

 

nice post. I personally only use site: link: and info: operators.

 

I saw recently a video where Matt Cutts explained some of this tricks and some others and basically how to use Google more efficiently.

Just found the video. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxfYd15ALsw

 

If you plan on doing SEO, become friends with allintitle, allinurl, and allinanchor.

 

nice share theanks for the link

 

Thanks for sharing the tricks and the link, I am only used to link: and site:

 

Killer post!

Now I can investigate all my competitor sites

Thank you very much!

 

Very useful stuff..

Thank you for sharing, really need to know ...

This will make searching more easy and useful...

 

Great stuff thanks - although Im sure I have more links to my sites than it is showing in google?