Google Tricks

May 21st, 2004, 2:01 am

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site:www.ozzu.com + "www.ozzu." + ".com" is very useful indeed

it certainly is, this am i could'nt get nothing for my forums from google, i did BWM code and tried again, i got the forum first time....
to BWM...
suzie.

May 27th, 2004, 9:51 am

Never knew about this: Google Specialized Search - http://www.google.com/options/specialsearches.html

Cover Linux, Microsoft, The Government, Schools and more...

June 14th, 2004, 6:01 pm

if you do

define:

and then a word google will give you a definition with its Google Glossary feature.

July 15th, 2004, 5:07 am

Very interesting ideas dude!

Oh and about the elgoog, I've seen it before.
This would be more fun though -
http://www.ozzu.com.mirror.sytes.org

July 20th, 2004, 10:50 pm

http://www.google.com/webalerts

With this you can:
keep current on a competitor or industry
monitor references to your name or company
find out when people link to your site
discover new websites on a certain topic

August 15th, 2004, 5:51 pm

I feel better. I finally found the source of the kitten picture they used in that "every time you masterbate God kills a kitten" email joke that went around for a while... it's at http://kittens.sytes.org/ (which was linked to by one of those cool mirror sites you guys posted - that stuff is weird.... the Google one freaked me out!

October 3rd, 2004, 7:30 pm

suzie wrote:

peteinoz2,
Your link is a 404, sorry!
cyberax, true saying though eh, take this week, a girl died, very young, they could'nt find the reason so slapped a "died from natural causes" on the certificate...lots of unexplained deaths become "natrual causes" for some unexplanable reason!
BinaryTox1n,
elgoog lol i thought i was seeing things there for a minute lololl
suzie.

yeah..that site went down

check here for more good google links

http://www.funwebcams.com/webmastersguide/

November 5th, 2004, 4:32 pm

had a quick browse of the over post and didnt see this little trick pop up

Write this string in google search:

"parent directory " /appz/ -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

"parent directory " DVDRip -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

"parent directory "Xvid -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

"parent directory " Gamez -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

"parent directory " MP3 -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

"parent directory " Name of Singer or album -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

Notice that i am only changing the word after the parent directory, change it to what you want and you will get a lot of stuff.

Do them searches and tell me if its a handy trick or not!

May 22nd, 2005, 9:35 pm

Great tips and tricks everyone - Just a simple enough question though -

Do links posted in forums count as backlinks? And is it also important to whom you link along with who links you?

Cuz I had a PR2 site and when I linked to high PR sites, within a week my PR jumped from 2 to 3.

Also for a PR3 site, how many days does it take for Google to index it?

May 23rd, 2005, 7:22 am

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Do links posted in forums count as backlinks?

depending on the forum, some forums are set up not to count as backlinks.

May 27th, 2005, 9:11 pm

didn't realize google saw http://www.misterbling.com differently than misterbling.com

My whole site was lacking the www. exept for the mainpage. I thought only subdomians were different.

All the time making sef urls , alt tags, header tags, sitemaps all products pages and countless directory listings.

Wondering why the pr : 1 would not go away and though I saw tons of bots surfing my site they weren't really.

Thanks so much. Great thread.
-misterbling

July 22nd, 2005, 3:30 pm

link:yoursite doesn't show all the links.

Try also:

link;yoursite

and

@yoursite

July 27th, 2005, 7:12 pm

BeatBlue wrote:

Try also: link;yoursite and @yoursite

It seems that
link;www.yoursite.com
is exactly the same as
link http://www.yoursite.com
The ; char is ignored by Google and just seen as a separator

But
link:;www.yoursite.com
returns a different answer than
link:www.yoursite.com

It seems that
@www.yoursite.com
is exactly the same as
"www.yoursite.com" (with quotes)

But
*www.yoursite.com
returns a different answer


Any ignored character ( @ ; * / ) glued at the beginning of a multi word expression gives similiar results (but not allways exactly the same) as "www.yoursite.com" (with quotes)

Does anybody have more infos about that? Is there a site which talk about that?

August 2nd, 2005, 10:08 am

I was told to use these words like "allintitle" and "allinurl", "allinanchor", "adsenseadvisor" etc. in my NEGATIVE keyword list. Is this a good idea to do and if so WHY?

September 5th, 2005, 7:43 am

I haven't found this anywhere here so having courage to post. Please ignore if already been discussed.

Put the expression

Quote:

7*2+2

in the search box and Google will calculate the result.

To convert currency
put

Quote:

3.5 USD in GBP

and google will convert 3.5 USD to 1.9054878 British pounds

Search in a number range

Search DVD player that costs between $250 and $350 as

Quote:

DVD player $250..350

Synonym Search

If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of your search term.

For example, here's how to search for food facts and nutrition and cooking information:

Quote:

~food ~facts