google search operators

whenever you want to find reference about something you just GOOGLE that thing, dont you? But like all too familiar things GOOGLE is also underutilized. Most of us only enter something like "writing viruses" and wait for results which always comes out to be relevant but most of times not exactly what we want.For getting exact results you must first understand that google is not only a search engine but is actually an extremely powerful tool when it comes to finding information online. Google provides few powerful operators that can be used in conjunction of one another to find anything from "TE PROJECT" to "LOG IN details"(crap like id and passwords)".Only limit is your imagination and webmaster's vigilance.

Lets begin:

• Enter just the word http for your search to find the top 1000 PageRanked sites.
  

• Enter only www in your search to see how Google ranks the top 1,000 sites.

Now serious stuff-->

• most important operators are "+" and "-" .With + you can make google search for both the terms together and by using - you can make google to filter out some phrase. e.g if you are searching for "wood prices" you will have use "-tiger" or you will get "Tiger Woods" biography.
  

• link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.

• related:url same as "what's related" on serps.

• site:domain restricts search results to the given domain.

• allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.

• inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.

• allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.

• intitle: similar to allintitle, but only for the next word. "intitle:third year project" finds only pages with "third year project" in the title.

• cache:url will show the Google version of the passed url.

• info:url will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box.

• spell: will spell check your query and search for it.

• stocks: will lookup the search query in a stock index.

• filetype: will restrict searches to that filetype. "-filetype:pdf" to remove Adobe PDF files.

• daterange: is supported in Julian date(whats that? enter intext:"julian date" Hey igot it! ) format only. 2454507.075 is an example of a Julian date.

• maps: If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.

• phone: enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same goes for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)

• allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title

• allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title

GOOGLE PAGE RANK : tip 1

As you are reading this i can safely assume that you have
designed a site or a blog and you want it to appear within
first few results for any related search term.
But how?
As there are billions of other sites (OK a little overboard here)
vying for top 10 positions in the page you get after
hitting "search".

To achieve top position you should consider following points:

• Does your site/blog offer anything interesting?
• Do you know anything about "SEO"? no no dont search you will learn it eventually.
• and most important have you submitted your blog/site to google's index

In this article i will explain about the third point because thats the very first and simple
step .
As google has got a lot of other sites to index the googlebots will never voluntarily
come to your site unless you ask them to do so. Thats why you have to submit your
site to google.

How to :
submitting a site to google is a simple process that can be easily completed in about
15 minutes.

• Before starting out you will need a google account.If you dont have any then you should open one at gmail . If you have any google account like orkut then you can use same username and password.
• Now login to your google account. Select "webmaster tools"
• At dashboard you will be asked to submit your site.(add option)
• After hitting ADD you will be asked to verify your site
  
• There are two ways in which you can verify that you are the real owner of the site.

1. Add a meta tag
2. upload an HTML file.

• Now if you own this site with url like www.example.com then you should choose the second option as that will be easier.
  
• After uploading the specified HTML file copy the address of that file(www.example.com/verify.html) and use it to verify your ownership.
• But if you are submitting a blog like www.blog.host.com then you should prefer adding meta tag. All you have to do is copy the tag given and paste it below title tag in your template HTML.(for blogger template>edit HTML)
• Then hit verify and you are done.
• It will take some time for google to index your pages meanwhile you should keep adding more and more quality content to your site/blog.
• As initially crawler visits "not too often" it is better to keep updating your site.
• If crawler finds your page unchanged from its previous visit then it increase the dealy between two visits assuming it wont change again.
• With more and fresh content you will definitely increase crawler visits and so you page rank.