Sunday, April 29, 2012

Best Google Tricks

Google Search Operators and Commands

Long tail Keywords
Do not hesitate to use long keywords to get the perfect search result. If you want to know the price of iPhone with contact in UK you should use , “iphone 4s price in uk with contract”. Such long and targeted keywords will narrow your search.

Use of “AND” operator
If you join multiple keywords with “AND” then Google will not look for each keywords separately. It will treat this combination as a single keyword unit. So, if you search for “best and android and mobile and 2012” the search engine will not search for “best”, ”android”, ”mobile” and “2012” . It will show only the pages containing this combined keywords.

Use of “OR” operator
“OR” operator does just the opposite. It will generate multiple keywords combinations . “BEST OR TOP ANDROID OR IPHONE APP” will do the searching for ” BEST ANDROID APP “, ” TOP ANDROID APP”, “BEST IPHONE APP” and “TOP IHONE APP”. I think it is clear to you now.

Use of “AND NOT”
Use “AND NOT” Google search Command to filter the results. If you simply search for “apple” you shall get results about apple the fruit and apple iPhone. If you want to search only for apple then use ” APPLE AND NOT iPHONE “. Now iPhones will be discarded from the search engine result page (SERP).






Using double quotes “”
Double quotes (“ ”) are used for phrase searching. If we search “MONEY MAKING MACHINE” Google will treat all three keywords (MONEY,MAKING and MACHINE) as a single phrase and search pages containing that phrase ignoring others like MONEY, MONEY MACHINE OR MAKING etc.

Title search
The term “title” before your query shall show the titles of the article having those keywords.
 
Using ‘+’ and ‘-‘
These two operators, + and – are used as “AND” and “AND NOT” equivalents. The search term “best and android and 2012” can be spelled as “best + android + 2012”. This one “apple and not iphone” can be written as “apple -iphone”.
 
Use of ‘*’ operator
Asterisk ( * ) operator is used to include alternate spellings and other keyword combinations in a search. If you search for ” color* ” you shall get “color scheme”,” color code”, “color magazine” etc different keyword combinations in the SERP.

Site search
Using this Google Search trick one can search within a site. The format is “ site: Site_Name + keywords “. Example of this type of search is “site: www.digg.com + pinappu”.

Link Search
If you want to know the external links of a web page just used “links:” before the site name. This Google search tips one good example is “ links: www.hubpages.com”. You can see all the external links of hubpages.com.
Use all the above mentioned Google search tricks to narrow your results to find out the right piece of information.

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