Google Advanced Search Operators for SEO
You may have spent lot of time and effort as well as money for the SEO. If you know the exact tricks of Google Advanced Search Operators then you don’t have to pay any single buck for the SEO and you will be the hero of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
Especially link building for SEO is almost time taking and very hard task to find the resources where to place the link. Behind the basic Google Search Operators there is some Google Advanced Search Operators which can make your work easier.
Here is some Google Advanced Search Operators which is commonly used by SEO Guru’s.
1. site:
Site:www.website.com will show you the exact number of pages of the following website indexed by Google.
2. link:
Link:www.webpage.com will show you all sites linking to the following webpage. It is important to determine how many links you have, since link popularity is important search engine ranking factor. It will also help you to find the link popularity of your competitor.
3. allinurl:
allinur:www.webpage.com helps you to find the specific page is indexed in Google or not.
4. allintitle:
Allintitle:keyword helps you to find the list of websites which contain the keyword in its title tag.
5. allintext:
allintext:keyword helps you to find the list of webpages which contain the keyword in their body of the page.
6. allinanchor:
allinanchor:keyword will show you the list or website or webpages that have links from other pages that contain those specif keywords in link anchor text.
7. cache:
cache:www.webpage.com helps you to find the last time the Google crawled your webpage and what version of the page it has in its cache.
8. info:
info:www.webpage.com helps you to find the variety of data about that page, such as latest cache date, other similar web pages, web pages that link to that site.
Google Advanced Search Operators for Link Building
9. “submit * post”, “submit * article”
Find the websites which accept article submissions.
10. “submit * post” topic, “submit * article”
This query will helps you to find the specific topic for article submission.
11. “keyword1″ – keyword2
This query will show you the list of websites containing keyword 1 excluding keyword2.
12. topic site:domaintype
For high quality backlinks you can use this keyword to find specific types of domains on specific topics.
By the above queries and operators combining with each other you can generate lot of useful queries which will helps you in link building. If you know some more Google Advanced Search Operators then feel free to share via comment box.
Hi,
So, how do you actually go about checking a site’s PR on google direct by using a search operator (foot print)? For backlinks checking, we use this search operator in google:
link:yourdomain.com
There are many PR checking tools and sites but they’re not always accurate. Best to get the PR of a site direct from Google Search.