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Are You A Search Savant?

Sat, 03/22/2008 - 19:34 — admin

How good are you at finding the results you want using search engines? Advanced search operators can really be useful to narrow search results and keep your hair from falling out trying to weed through irrelevant results.

These are simply the most useful commands I have found helpful along with a little legend indicating which of the big three search engines these tips work on.

The results obtained with link related commands are often somewhat incomplete. Live search currently allows the +link command but this can change at any time. Google displays select links only and Yahoo includes more linkdomain and link data than the others.

There are other advanced search operators available, I just don't use them much. Here are the links to each engine's respective page. What do you find useful when sifting through SERP's looking for just the right results?

Advanced Google Search Operators
Yahoo Search Basics
Live Advanced Search Options

Description Search Command Google Yahoo Live
A simple search website design services check mark check mark check mark
Phrase Search "website design services" check mark check mark check mark
Any Word (website OR design OR services) check mark check mark check mark
Exclude a Word search engine -optimization check mark check mark check mark
Exclude Words search -engine -optimization check mark check mark check mark
Exclude Words -(internet marketing) red x red x check mark
Wildcard Search three * mice check mark red x red x
Find any edu site with internet or marketing AND comment or comments or blog site:.edu (internet|marketing) (blog|comment|comments) check mark check mark red x
Find any edu site with internet or marketing AND comment or comments or blog site:.edu (internet OR marketing) (blog OR comment OR comments) check mark check mark check mark
Show indexed pages for a site site:example.com check mark check mark check mark
Indexed pages with the word conversion site:example.com conversion check mark check mark check mark
Display backlinks for a page link:http://www.example.com/page.html red x check mark red x
Show domain backlinks linkdomain:example.com red x check mark red x
Show domain backlinks link:example.com check mark red x red x
Show domain backlinks +links:example.com red x red x check mark
You can add a word to all the link commands to find ibl's containing that word
Find synonym's ~link -link check mark red x red x
Get pages containing "links" in the url and "oneway" on the page inurl:links oneway check mark red x red x
Get pages containing links" and "oneway" in the url allinurl:links oneway check mark red x red x
Display pages containing "links" in the title and "oneway" on the page intitle:links oneway check mark red x red x
Display pages containing "links" and "oneway" in the title allintitle:links oneway check mark red x red x
Locate pages with "keyword" in link anchor text and "density" on page inanchor:keyword density check mark red x red x
Locate pages with "keyword" and "density" in link anchor text allinanchor:keyword density check mark red x red x
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