After some digging around SEO blogs and forums we managed to find a comprehensive list of Google search prefixes that you can use to find high quality and relevant information and allowing you to sift through the junk you don’t need to know about without even seeing it.Well, we did our research and found someone that had already done the hard work and compiled a good list of search operators. So, here’s that list
Manually type the following prefixes and note their utility:
- 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:seoforgoogle google” finds only pages with seoforgoogle in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
- 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 format only. 2452384 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 is true for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)
- site:www.somesite.net “+www.somesite.+net” – (tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)
- allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title
- allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title
