Google supports several commands
Which can help you if you do Search Engine optimization in Google. Typically these commands modify the search in some way or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search, "link:" is a special Google command, and the query
link:www.SEO-watch.com
doesn't do a normal search but instead finds web pages
that have links that point to www.SEO-watch.com.
A several of other Google commands use punctuation instead of words or phrases. Below is a list of all the special SEO Google commands that Google supports.
cache:www.visualorange.net Search Engine optimization
If you include other words or phrases in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document. For instance, cache:www.visualorange.net Search Engine optimization will show the cached content with the word or phrase "Search Engine optimization" highlighted.
This functionality is also available by clicking on the "Cached" link on Google's main search results pages, some SEO companies protect them self by placing Google robot text inside the
<head> of the html code to not display the cached web page or content in Google's search results.
This special html tag look like this <META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE"/> try it and put it inside the <head> of your index page and you will notice that Google will not cache your index page anymore.
The command [cache:] will show the version of the web page that Google has in its cache after the crawler visited your site. For instance, cache:www.visualorange.net will show Google's cache of the Visual Orange.net homepage. Remember there can be no space between the "cache:" and the web page or domain url.
The cache command is very handy for people who do SEO, you can compare web sites and after the research you can make adjustments to the content or text. Just try it with your own web site!
link:www.SEO-watch.com
The Google command [link:] will list web pages that have links to the specified web page. Example, link:www.SEO-watch.com will list web pages that have links pointing to the SEO watch homepage. Remember there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page url or domain.
This is an very use full Google command for optimization companies that do link building.
site:www.SEO-watch.com
If you include site: in your search, google will give the results to those web sites in the given domain. Example,
site:www.SEO-watch.com
will find all pages from www.SEO-watch.com. Remember there can be no space between the "site:" and the domain.
This google command is very help full if you update your site and would like to know which page Google included in the database of Google's search results.
related:www.SEO-watch.com
The google command [related:] will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page. For instance,
related:www.SEO-watch.com
will list web pages that are similar to the SEO watch homepage. remember there can be no space between the "related:" and the web page url or domain.
All SEO Google Commands
- cache:www.yourdomain.com
- link:www.yourdomain.com
- related:www.yourdomain.com
- info:www.yourdomain.com
- site:www.yourdomain.com
- allintitle:www.yourdomain.com
- intitle:www.yourdomain.com
- allinurl:www.yourdomain.com
- inurl:www.yourdomain.com
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