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Google’s Search queries unveiled

GoogleApps_Mar03_BGetting faster and more targeted search results from Google can greatly increase your business efficiency. The fact is, being able to source relevant search results means you need to spend less time searching, thus giving you that added time to focus on your everyday work. If you’re having a hard time getting the kind of results you’re looking for from Google, then hopefully our guide will help change that.

Searching for all mentions of a word in a site – keyword site:sitename.com

If you are looking for a specific word or phrase on a website, you can enter keyword site:sitename.com in the search bar, and Google will return pages that contain the keyword in the site you listed.

For example, if you’re looking for the word ‘business’ in the website examiner.com, then your search query would be – business site:examiner.com

Using this search query will show all the pages/posts in examiner.com that mention the word ‘business’.

Get exact match results

If you type keywords or phrases as you usually would in the search box, Google won’t give you exact results. For example, if you type in the phrase ‘business strategies’ (without quotation marks), you’ll get results for both business and strategies. If you want results that contain the exact phrase, then you simply have to add quotation marks around your phrase – “business strategies”. You can include as many words as you like, and if Google finds an exact match, you’ll see the result.

This is one technique that other writers or webmasters use to see if someone’s plagiarized their content.

Looking for pages that are the same/similar to a URL – related:sitename.com

If you like one website or page and would like to find similar sites you can enter related:sitename.com. This search query is perfect for client prospecting.

For example: If one of your customers was softwaremedia.com and your target market is companies that are selling software, you can just type in related:softwaremedia.com in the search field. Doing this will give you the URLs of sites that are similar to softwaremedia.com.

Searching for words in an article’s title – intitle:keyword

If you enter intitle:keyword, for example intitle:business strategies, in Google’s Search bar, you will get results that have the keyword phrase “business strategies” in the title. This can include articles and Web page titles.

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