Posts Tagged ‘Query Modifiers’

Yahoo Advanced Query Modifiers

December 5th, 2008 by Carl | No Comments | Filed in SEO tips, Search Engine Results, Yahoo

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Excerpt: While carrying out a search using Yahoo, I noticed that Yahoo supports advanced query modification in a similar way that Google does. With some trial and error I have discovered the following operators seem to work: intext:query – finds the search query text within a document. anchor:query – finds the search term within the URL of the document. intitle:query – finds the search term within the title of the document. site:query – send you to the yahoo site explorer where you can find links and pages indexed by Yahoo. I could not find any documentation for these operators, but it could be a feauture that…

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Advanced Search Techniques

October 9th, 2008 by Carl | 4 Comments | Filed in Basic SEO, Google, Keyword Research, Linking, SEO tips, URLs

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Excerpt: One of the best tools to use for SEO is the Google search engine. It allows you to perform very specific searches on sites and for file types. Knowing how to get information out of Google should be part of every SEO specialist’s basic knowledge. Search Operators or Query Modifiers These are placed in front of the search term and allow you define searches for phrases that occur within a website title or in the anchor text of the site. The search allows you to do searches using the minus character to excludes certain words. Complete phrases can be added between double…

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