Google does a neat task at returning good links for our search queries. But if you heavily depend on the search engine for your day job, then far too often you find yourself refining your queries to get better results. Here are a few strings you can use daily to help Google filter your results and display the most relevant links.
in:blogs displays better results from blogs than Google Blogsearch does. That is if you are not searching for trends or recent posts.
allinurl:term returns web pages with all keywords included in the URL.
inurl:term returns results with some or all the keywords included in the URL.
filetype: pdf flv mp3..or any document type returns document of the specified file type.
allintitle:term returns results with all the keywords included in the page title.
intitle:term returns results with some or all the keywords included in the title.
allinanchor:term returns results with all the keywords as anchor text on web pages.
inanchor:term will serve results with one or all the keywords as anchor text on web pages.
site:url lets you searched the specified website.
site:.edu only serves results from sites with .edu in their domain name.
site:.gov returns results from sites with .gov in their domain name.
location:state narrows your search by state.
-term will exclude all results where the term is included on the web page.
+term allows you to search only for pages with the specified term.
What search operators do you use daily?
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…don’t forget the most important of all for SEO gurus, site:address@domain.com. This will display all of the backlinks to your site, although Google and Yahoo apply these searches differently