Monday, March 17, 2008

Google Tricks for SEO

  • link:url "Shows other pages with links to that url."
  • related:url "same as "what's related" on serps."
  • site:domain "restricts search results to the given domain."
  • allinurl: "shows only pages with all terms in the url."
  • inurl: "like allinurl, but only for the next query word."
  • allintitle: "shows only results with terms in title."
  • intitle: "similar to allintitle, but only for the next word. "intitle:seoforgoogle google" finds only pages with seoforgoogle in the title, and google anywhere on the page."
  • cache:url "will show the Google version of the passed url."
  • info:url "will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box."
  • spell: "will spell check your query and search for it."
  • stocks: "will lookup the search query in a stock index."
  • filetype: "will restrict searches to that filetype. "-filetype:pdf" to remove Adobe PDF files."
  • daterange: "is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date."
  • maps: "If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented."
  • phone: "enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same is true for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)"
  • site:www.somesite.net "+www.somesite.+net" - (tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)
  • allintext: "searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title"
  • allinlinks: "searches only within links, not text or title"

  • Source : SeoForGoogle