Free Search Guide
Perhaps, like many Internet users, you don’t know how to use Google, other than to type in a few search terms and click “Google search.” In spite of those random searches, Google does its best to deliver the most relevant results to you; though, neither Google nor Bing nor any other search engine can read users’ minds (They’d like you to think they can, but they can’t). Of course, they do their best, and we think Google comes the closest.
Now that you know Google can’t read your mind, the other secret is that they set up search tools to help you better tell them what you’re thinking. And they’re constantly coming up with new ways to listen to what users want. If you want to tell them what you’re thinking, you can click on the ‘Advanced Search’ button to the right of Google’s search box, or you can use the quick tips listed on this page to tell Google how to better order your search results.
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SEO Content: Results in pages containing the words SEO and Content, but not necessarily “SEO Content.”
“SEO Content” / SEO+content: Either methods results in pages containing the words SEO Content together. Note: Google searches for synonyms, but the + eliminates searches for synonyms.
SEO OR Content: Results in pages containing one of these two terms. Note: The ‘OR’ must be capitalized.
SEO Content –AnySite.com: Include similar SERP to SEO Content, except for those from AnySite.com. Note: You can use the minus/negative sign to filter out keywords also.
SEO Content filetype:pdf: Results in PDF files. This can also be used to search for any filetypes.
SEO Content –Keyword –Density: Results in pages containing SEO Content, but will eliminate pages that contain the words Keyword and Density.
SEO Content site:anysite.com: Searches within anysite.com that contains the SEO and content.
Allintitle: SEO content: Search for pages that contain SEO Content in the page’s title.
Allintext: SEO Content: Searches for pages containing SEO and Content within the page’s text.
AllinURL: SEO Content: Searches for results that contain SEO Content in the URL.
Allinanchor: SEO Content: Results in pages containing SEO and Content in links to the page.
Software $5.00..$100.00: Results in pages containing information about software between $5.00 and $100.00.
SEO content:related:allsites.com: Results in pages containing information about SEO Content within and related to allsites.com.
Related:allsites.com: This is similar to the above search, but this search includes web pages similar to allsites.com.
Software:Link:allsites.com: Results in pages containing with information about software that links to allsites.com.
Software *: Results in pages containing information about software products or developments. Note: In certain circumstances, the asterisk tells Google to search for answers to questions, such as Timothy Berners-Lee who *.
~SEO Content: Google automatically searches for synonyms of popular words, but the accent mark before a search term tells google to search for synonyms of less popular search terms.
Video:SEO CONTENT or Software:SEO Content: If you want to search for a certain type of product about SEO Content or Software, type that before your search term. This works for other terms such as books, etc.
92101:Software: This will search for all results that include the term software within specific zip codes. Note: This includes all information with the 5-digit string of numbers specified, but is not location exclusive. You can also search by city or state.
Other search notes:
- Google ignores Stop Words: A, And, The, In, On, Of, Be, I, Am. Of course, there are a few exceptions, such as in a search for the band “The Who”.
*Note: If you do not want Google to ignore a stop word, put a + before the word with no space between the + and the word. - Search is not case sensitive, so a search for ‘SEO Content’ will return the same results as a search for ‘seo content’.
- Punctuation in searches is ignored, except for $, -, _, and any other symbols Google deems absolutely relevant.