Google’s Advanced Search Toys

This is the second post in my “Internet Business Definition” series that will run every Monday on Art of Money, but it’s a holiday so you’re going to get the raw notes version ‘cuz I took most of the day off.

Today’s definition is: Advanced Search Google style

These searches are useful if you are trying to do research for SEO or keyword optimization reasons…for a lot of other things too.

The examples below [mostly] all use the keyword business, so keep that in mind. Just go to Google…don’t be so lazy, I’m not supplying a link, and type in the part in bold to see the results for that feature.

–> Find pages with the search term in the title tag [shows up on the top left hand corner of the browser]

allintitle: business

–> Find pages with the search term in the text of the page [seems to pick up word in the URL too]

allintext: business

–> Find pages with the search term anywhere in the URL [domain name plus any folder and file name]

allinurl: business

–> To find a particular type of page based on the file extension

allinurl: .php

…for example if you are a hacker and want to find the login page of all WordPress blogs so you can try and hack them, then this search will bring back a list of all the login pages of over 2 million WordPress blogs

allinurl: wp-login.php

–> Find pages that contain a particular term in a specific site

business site:http://artofmoney.org

–> Find pages that contain a particular term in the anchor text of the links that’s point to the site [useful for finding pages that are specifically optimized for specific terms]

allinanchor: business

–> Pages that link to a specific page or site:

link:http://artofmoney.org/ = 41 results

–> Google is very unreliable when it come to reporting backlinks so better to use Yahoo:

link:http://artofmoney.org/ = 1470 results

–> Search only U.S. Government sites:

http://www.google.com/ig/usgov

–> Only sites that have Apple Mac related content:

http://www.google.com/mac

Funny they don’t have a “Windows” specific page

–> Want work that is free to reprint, even commercially under the creative commons license: try this search

Most of the searches can be done from this page on Google’s advanced search form. If you want to learn how our holy father and almighty god works a little better, play around on there a bit.

Update: Here’s another great advanced search reference.
That’s it for today: I’m Jon Symons, wasting all my time in front of a computer, so you don’t have to.

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