Dax Aurand

Google Short Cuts and Tricks

#	Shortcut	Finds blogs that have…
1	email marketing	the words “email” OR “marketing”
2	email +marketing	the words “email” AND “marketing”
3	carp fishing -sea	the word “carp” OR the word “fishing” but NOT the word “sea”
4	“email marketing”	the exact phrase “email marketing”
5	“email marketing” -seo	the exact phrase “email marketing” but NOT the word “seo”
6	“email” site:.co.uk	the word “email” and the domain ending with “.co.uk”
7	email +”2 comments”	the word “email” AND 2 comments
6	“email marketing” +”3 comments”	the exact phrase “email marketing” AND 3 comments
9	~marketing	the word “marketing” and its synonyms
10	email * marketing	the words “email” and “marketing” separated by one or more words

Advanced Search Tips

Below you can find a few examples of the advanced search tricks that are not widely used yet may be quite effective in getting more search results:

Search for blogs with the keywords in the URL

inurl:email - searches for the "email" word in the URL of the blog 
inurl:email marketing - searches for the words "email" OR "marketing" in the URL of the blog
inurl:"email marketing" - searches for the "email marketing" phrase in the URL of the blog

Search for blogs with and without “www” prefix in the URL:

"email marketing" inurl:"www." - searches for blogs with www prefix in the URL
"email marketing" -inurl:"www." - searches for blogs without www prefix in the URL

Search for blogs registered on specific domain zones (.com, .net, .biz, etc.)

"some keywords" inurl:".com"
"some keywords" inurl:".net"
"some keywords" inurl:".biz"
"some keywords" inurl:".edu"
"some keywords" inurl:".info"
"some keywords" inurl:".org"

Search for blogs registered on specific domains (example for com domains)

"some keywords" site:com - searches only for blogs registered on com domain zone

site:*com - searches for blogs without a hyphen in the domain name
site:com -site:*com - searches for blogs with one or more hyphens in the domain name

site:*-*com - searches for blogs with one hyphen in the domain name
site:*-*-*com - searches for blogs with two hyphens in the domain name

site:*.*com - searches for blogs with one dot in the domain name
site:*.*.*com - searches for blogs with two dots in the domain name

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Google Short Cuts and Tricks