Google Tricks

title tags and description tags are not as important as they use to be in SE ranking. Now days the algorithm is much more advanced then anyone thinks and knows. basic rules of thumb to remember:

1. Make sure your website has a nice plethora of UNIQUE content, i stress unique because you copy content from another page, be sure you will get dropped from the search engines.
2. content has to match your keywords.
3. your site must be updated frequently, weather you use RSS feeds or you write a blog, keep it commin, search engines love change on a page.
4. having quality websites with good traffic linking to you is a plus, make sure the link is on a relevant page. remember, it takes time for you to get good ranking, the longer a website has been online, the better ranking........dont forget, Rome was not built in one day

These are just a few important steps, of course there are many many more rules to fallow, I will post more at a later time.

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Since many people are still worried about the keywords and description tags, they still have a role on search engines, specially on MSN and Yahoo but Google nearly bypass many descriptions.

yes, MSN is all based on the tags, actually it is very easy to get good ranking in MSN, but of course not to many people use MSN to search.

Good post about researching about the site. The other tools for keyword researching or finding real competition for your keyword type this in google: intitle:marketing inurl:marketing inanchor:marketing if marketing is your targeted keyword.

If your keyphrase is two word length like marketing uk then type the following in google :
intitle:marketing+uk inurl:marketing+uk inanchor:marketing+uk

Only the sites listed in this query are real competitors for your keyphrase "marketing uk". If you do a search for "marketing uk" you will get very high number of results and don't get shocked or drop the keyword for this. do intitle: inurl: inanchor query to find out real competition. This will help in deciding which keyphrase to target when building keywords for your site.

This was a great list . I usually used this command in checking the backlinks of our site. Is there different results if I used www and without www?

# link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.
# site:domain restricts search results to the given domain.

i think this is a smart thing to do instead of submit your site with a back link:
1.because if you want to submit you site in about 500 directories you really waste your space with links
2.you site's aspect looks more cool with no parteners links

Now google is not showing all links by link:site url

if you want to check correct no. of back links you have to go google webmaster tool.

Yahoo's advance search is far more efficient than Google. It gives you option to choose text in TITLE + text in URL both at the same time.

This option is not available in Google. If you are looking for some advance searching techniques, then go to Yahoo advance search. I am sure you will observe the difference.

Blog & Forum Searches (Let's say your keyword is web design)

intitle:forum website designing
inurl:forum website designing
website designing blog
intitle:blog website designing
inurl:blog website designing
"add comment" website designing
"post comment" website designing

Just wanna add, if u guys are
Looking for Backlinks

"Add link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add a link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add site" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add a site" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add your site" +"your keywords(s)"
"Add URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add a URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add an URL" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add Website" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add a website" +"your keyword(s)"
"Add your website" +"your keywords(s)"
"Submit link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit a link" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit site" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit a site" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit your site" +"your keyword(s)"
"Submit URL" +"your keyword(s)"

I want to add some more tricks to the list

phonebook:(find a phone number) phonebook:Google CA
bphonebook: (find business phone numbers) bphonebook:Intel OR
rphonebook:(find residential phone numbers) rphonebook:Joe Smith Seattle WA
movie:(search for showtimes) movie:wallace and gromit 97110
stocks:(get a stock quote) stocks:ncesa
weather:(get local weather) weather:97132

You can download Google toolbar from here - http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/too ... index.html

Hi,

When I am typing link: http://www.abc.com its showing a lost of links in the search results.

Can anyone please tell me what is the difference between

link:www.abc.com and link: http://www.abc.com and why they are showing different results.

Link:Url does not show all and every link pointing back to any given domain.

Google does play lots of hide n seek when it comes to displaying important information such as number of backlinks.

thanks Bigwebmaster for this, I did not realize that Google had so many additional options .