Showing posts with label basic search tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label basic search tips. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

InternetMarketingClub.org Presents The Ten Different Kinds of Search (and how to use them in your marketing)


Join Jay Berkowitz, CEO of TenGoldenRules.com, as he presents, “The Ten Different Kinds of Search (and how to use them in your marketing).”

Long gone are the days of a Google search being the only way our customers and prospects search for goods and services.

This presentation will explain:

• Right Now Search
• People Search
• Use Search
• Geo Search
• Best Price Search
• Reputation Search

Learn how to use these queries in your marketing program and all of the various ways we use the Internet to obtain information. Also, gain a better understanding for how you can engage your brands in these new marketing opportunities.

This free webinar will take place Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:30pmEDT – 1:30pmEDT. To register and for more information please visit: The Ten Different Kinds of Search

Monday, March 29, 2010

Become A Better Searcher


When using major search engines, such as Google, to find information, there are some little known commands that can help you make your search more precise and find information faster and more efficiently. There are a large number of different commands in Google, so I will discuss some basic commands that will help people find information and some more advanced commands that can be used for competitive research.

Almost all of us have reached some level of frustration trying to find something in a search engine. One of the most basic ways to make your search results more specific is to use the minus symbol next to irrelevant keywords. Let's say for example, you are searching for information on a new Honda Accord you are planning to buy. You search "2010 Honda Accord" and most of the results are about repairs. To remove any results that are about repairs, you can include the minus symbol next to the word repairs in the search query. Your search query would look like this:

2010 Honda Accord -repairs

Something else that causes people frustration is trying to find a page of a particular website. You can use Google to search for a phrase only within a specific website. For this you use the "site:" command. Let's take the example above and say we are looking for information on the 2010 Honda Accord on the Honda.com domain. You can eliminate results from all other websites using the following query:

2010 Honda Accord site:honda.com

This will only return pages on the honda.com website.

Finally, let's discuss some more advanced search commands. Let's say you are trying to rank your website for a specific phrase and you want to know how competitive that phrase is. You can determine how many competing webpages have that phrase in the anchor text of an inbound link using the "allinanchor:" command. For example, if you are targeting the phrase "internet marketing consultant" you can see how many other pages have links pointing to them with that exact phrase in the anchor text using this query:

allinanchor: internet marketing consultant

The number of pages returned will give you a good idea of how many pages you will have to compete with.