Google Tricks

A few things you might want to try with Google:

1. Install the Google Toolbar so you can easily check PageRank, backlinks, similar sites, and sites with text containing the name of a given site.
   
2. Enter just the word http for your search to find the top 1000 PageRanked sites (unfortunately, the listing stops near the beginning of the 7's).
   
3. Hand type the following prefixes and note their utility:
   
   
   1. link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.
   2. related:url same as "what's related" on serps.
   3. site:domain restricts search results to the given domain.
   4. allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.
   5. inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
   6. allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
   7. intitle: similar to allintitle, but only for the next word. "intitle:webmasterworld google" finds only pages with webmasterworld in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
   8. cache:url will show the Google version of the passed url.
   9. 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.
   10. spell: will spell check your query and search for it.
   11. stocks: will lookup the search query in a stock index.
   12. filetype: will restrict searches to that filetype. "-filetype:doc" to remove Microsoft word files.
   13. daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.
   14. maps: If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.
   15. 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)
   16. site:www.somesite.net "+www.somesite.+net"
       (tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)
   17. allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title
   18. allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title
4. Check out Froogle and Google Catalogs.
   
5. Google API

Great post!

A good way to use the allinurl command is to find out how many of your sites' pages have been indexed by Google (or of other sites).

like this:


(at time of post, this gave 1 of 41900 pages)

I usually post something like this to find out how many pages a site has indexed:



This gave me 55,600 pages found. This is letter 3p as described above.

Can someone help with the syntax for allinlinks:

I'm familar with allinanchor: used like this:
allinanchor:keyword phrase site:www.mysite.com

Do not put an http:// in your site:url or it will fail.

When I try to use allinlinks: this way I don't get any results. I get 73 for allinanchor:

Also does anyone know if there is a difference....beteween allinanchor and allinlinks. I'm using this in google.

Basically, the way that google ranks your site has to do with 1 thing and 1 thing only: How many pages in google's listing link to your site in one way or another. The more sites which link back to you, the higher the ranking you'll be for Google.

-Helix

Helix_dnb - that is partially true. The more inbound links you have (and the higher quality) the more credibility Google will see that your site has, and potentially allow it to rank high for certain terms. However, having a good PageRank is only one of the factors needed to get ranked high for a term. If your website has no content, I really doubt you are going to get many good rankings.

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

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

if you do

define:

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

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

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!

link:yoursite doesn't show all the links.

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?

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

Put the expression in the search box and Google will calculate the result.

To convert currency
put 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

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:

site:www.somesite.net "+www.somesite.+net"

I don't understand what the second part "+www.somesite.+net" does.

I tried it on http://www.ozzu.com and I get the same results with or without the second part.

Also it says http://www.ozzu.com has 3.5 million pages indexed. It seems unlikely that there are actually 3.5 million pages at ozzu so does this mean many pages are indexed multiple times or just that the count is inaccurate at large numbers?

Pages that look like
http://www.ozzu.com/google-seo/google-tricks-t340.html
http://www.ozzu.com/google-seo/google-tricks-t340.html#123456

are different for SE. Same goes for forum, thread and post links.