Tips & Tricks: Special Commands in Google

 As you probably know, Google is the most widely used search engine on the Internet today. But did you know there is a lot you can do with it beyond basic searches?

You can learn more about how Google has indexed your website (assuming it has) by typing the following commands into the Google search window. Of course, substitute your domain name for the word “domain.” And when researching a particular keyword or phrase, type that word or phrase where it says “keyword.”

 link:www.domain.com returns a list of backlinks that Google has indexed. Only
a small selection is listed, however.

 related:www.domain.com returns a list of sites that Google sees as related
to the topic on your page. At present, it’s not very accurate.

allinurl:keyword returns a list of pages and sites that contain the ‘keyword’
in their url.

site:www.domain.com returns all pages of the domain that Google has crawled
and indexed.

allinanchor:keyword returns a list of pages and sites that contain the keyword
as anchor text in their backlinks.

cache:www.domain.com will show the current cache that Google has for the page.

info:www.domain.com will return information that Google has for the page.

allintitle:keyword returns webpages that have the specified keywords in the
title.

intitle:keyword returns listings of web pages that have only the specific keyword
as the title.

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