Comments on: Search Operators for SEO Linkbuilding

By: twittnot

twittnot — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:14:14 +0000

Great post Michael, some really interesting stuff there. A lot of operators I hadn’t have thought of. Bookmarked for sure.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:24:34 +0000

thanks for the tip Dan.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:31:21 +0000

don’t forget yahoo’s equivalent of intext:keyword is inbody:keyword (if i rememebr correctly)

By: SEO company perth

SEO company perth — Sun, 01 May 2011 15:20:49 +0000

I search as: blog”keyword”+”post a comment”

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:27:15 +0000

Wow. What a great post Michael!! You listed at least 5 different operators that I’ve never used before. Great information. Definitely bookmarked. Thanks!

Take care,

Jeff

By: hotel reservations online

hotel reservations online — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:15:38 +0000

Really cool list of search queries.!I noticed search engine algorithms are like mathematical formula…for example if you want to search a site but their is a lot of PDF files in the results you can add a search term like this “-pdf”..

By: web designing company

web designing company — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:50:13 +0000

hi sir,
(You can copy this list to an excel spreadsheet or edit pad text editor & replace “keyword” with your targeted phrase)

Every once in some time & depending on what website I’m working on, I’ll use different search operators to find elementary links relevant to the keywords I’m targeting on the SERP’s. there’s loads of search engine query cheat sheets & SEO Blogs that give immense list of search operators to make use of when doing link building. So I’ve composed a list of all the search queries I could find to help you build a pleasant list of relevant sites to get backlinks from.

But check this out, all of these search operators can be used together. You can mix them up. You can use 2 of them, 5 of them or even all of them (for keywords like web, site, page etc. .

* add comment “keyword”
* allinanchor:keyword
* allintext:keyword
* allintitle:keyword
* allinurl:keyword
* listing keyword
* favorite links keyword
* favorite sites keyword
* intext:keyword
* site:org
Imagine you are a webmaster for a hotel in new york city & you’re looking for more ways to get links from sites relevant to yours. Here are a few examples & explanations of how link building search queries would look in case you mixed them up & played around with them.
thanks

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:28:47 +0000

Thank you Michael. I am noob but it’s exactly what i needed. Try operators to find blogs on which post comments like this one Web:. edu inurl: blog “post a comment” – “comments closed” -”you must be logged in”

By: Franchise UK

Franchise UK — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:58:27 +0000

Thanks Michael. Some great info here especially on the dofollow blog research. Using combinations of the operators above means you can really drill down to get to exactly the results you want.

Joe

By: Louise McCartan

Louise McCartan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:13:56 +0000

Thanks for that Michael. It’s a handy article to refer back to