How To REALLY Use Google Part Three

Written by Andrew Wroblewski


In Part One, we coveredrepparttar basics of searching on Google.com and in Part Two we moved into more advanced search techniques. In today's third and final installment we will peer into some ways of using Google you may have never thought of or knew existed.

DATE RANGES: You may limit your search to an exact date of a "range" of dates that a page was indexed by Google. To use Google's "daterange" function, you will need to express your dates in "Julian" dates. This date format is express as an integer. To convert a common date into Julian format go to: http://www.24hourtranslations.co.uk/dates.htm

As an example, if I wanted to find pages (about a certain topic) indexed by Google duringrepparttar 118846 month of May 2003, I would type in:

"direct response marketing" daterange: 2452774-2452803

TYPES OF FILES: You can limit your Google search results to specific files ending in a particular extension (.doc, .txt, .rtf, .pdf etc...)

To find a file onrepparttar 118847 topic "direct response marketing" in Adobe (.pdf) format you would type in: "direct response marketing" filetype:pdf

You can exclude certain types of files from your search by doing a "negative" search and placing a "minus" ( - ) sign in front ofrepparttar 118848 "filetype:"

ANCHOR TEXT SEARCHES: Allow you to just searchrepparttar 118849 "anchor" text in web page link anchors. Link anchors arerepparttar 118850 words that appear between: <.a href="yadayada.html" rel="nofollow">Direct Response Marketing<.a> In this case it'srepparttar 118851 phrase Direct Response Marketing.

PLAIN TEXT SEARCHES: By using Google's "intext" search capabilities, you can search JUSTrepparttar 118852 body text of web pages and not any links, urls or titles, justrepparttar 118853 body. Simply type:

intext:"direct response marketing"

CACHE SEARCHING: This form of searching will only search for results on sites that are stored in Google's "cache' or memory. This sometimes can give you older versions of sites. Example:

How To REALLY Use Google Part One

Written by Andrew Wroewski


In a matter of a couple of short years,repparttar Google.com search engine has becomerepparttar 118845 world's favorite way to find what they're looking for online.

Now, most of you who are reading this are saying "Duh", but let me ask you this: Do you REALLY know how to use Google and get repparttar 118846 most out of this incredible search technology?

Hopefully, these tips will help you find EXACTLY what you wantrepparttar 118847 next time you head on over to "Google Land" and start searching.

To start, unlike most search engines, Google does not care if your search term is in UPPER or lower case. In fact, it can even be MiXeD case andrepparttar 118848 search results will be identical no matter how you type in your term.

The Google GOLDEN Rule: BE SPECIFIC!

When usingrepparttar 118849 Google search engine, you must be specific in what you ask and HOW you ask it to getrepparttar 118850 results you desire.

How do you be specific?

Let's say you are interested in finding out more aboutrepparttar 118851 field of Direct Response Marketing. To search for that exact phrase you put "quotes" aroundrepparttar 118852 phrase like this: "direct response marketing". This forces Google to cough up search results with those exact words in that specific order, only.

If you didn't use quotes and just typed in direct response marketing, you would get results that includedrepparttar 118853 words: direct, response and marketing mixed in withrepparttar 118854 MORE SPECIFIC results ofrepparttar 118855 precise phrase "direct response marketing".

(BTW.......for those of you who are used to searching by puttingrepparttar 118856 word "and" between all your search words, with Google, it's not necessary. Google automatically "thinks" like that by default.)

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