Google Search Tips
SmallBusinessHub has a good collection of tips to use when searching the web with Google. Some of the tips that many novices do not know are to use phrases, search within specific websites and exclude words from your search. These following tips covers this situations.1. Explicit Phrase: Lets say you are looking for content about internet marketing. Instead of just typing internet marketing into the Google search box, you will likely be better off searching explicitly for the phrase. To do this, simply enclose the search phrase within double quotes.Other tips on the SmallBusinessHub post including using the "OR" command, finding word defintions and using numeric ranges.
Example: "internet marketing"
2. Exclude Words: Lets say you want to search for content about internet marketing, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term advertising. To do this, simply use the "-" sign in front of the word you want to exclude.
Example Search: internet marketing -advertising
3. Site Specific Search: Often, you want to search a specific website for content that matches a certain phrase. Even if the site doesn't support a built-in search feature, you can use Google to search the site for your term. Simply use the "site:somesite.com" modifier.
Example: "internet marketing" site:www.smallbusinesshub.com
Posted on March 5, 2007
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