Google’s Advanced Search Toys
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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.
Hi Jon, let the people know how to stop G from indexing their admin pages in WP. Since you just told the hackers how to find them.
In fun,
Nneka
Nneka, very good point…looks like the next tip is the robots.txt file!
[...] Last week’s Tech Tuesday tip featured a bunch of Google’s advanced search tools and astute reader Nneka rightly pointed out, that if I was going to show folks how easy it is for potential hackers to search for the login page for their WordPress blog, I could at least have the decency to show them how to keep your login page from getting into the list in the first place. I agree completely so here it is… [...]