Google Search Tips

“Make google your best friend”

Google is the world largest search engine in the web. There is some tips for searching

in google.

The Google Guide can help you to improve your search results and SERP analysis with less-
Known search Tips
First Things First
In this Google guide I’ll show you some less-known google operators and search tips. Please note that
Since this advanced operators are sometimes used by spam-bot, black hat seos and other people google
Does not loves, you may bump in 403-Access denied screens like the one I showed to you in my
Google hates Doughnuts (and Advanced Search Strings) article.
Don’t be scared if this happens, nothing is wrong with you / your pc / your search, is just google that
It’s a little nervous
Basic Operators
+
Forces words to be included in search results. Useful with stop words that otherwise will be discarded
-
Prevents a search term to show in results, for example searching for doughnut -cream can help you to
Avoid creamy doughnuts
OR
Returns documents with one of the given terms, like doughnut OR donut. You can also use | instead of
OR: doughnut | donut
” “
Using quotes forces google to search for the exact phrase (including stop words), try “doughnut at
Midnight” and doughnut at midnight (actually, using quotes is similar, but not equals, to doughnut-at-
Midnight … it would be interesting to know what is the exact difference in SERP)
~
Allow to search also for synonyms of the given word. searching for doughnut ~tips finds also pages
With the word help or guide etc.
*
Means every word. Try “doughnuts with *”
..
Used to search in a range of numbers, “2…20 doughnuts” will find pages containing “I eat 3 doughnuts
a day” and “I’ll never eat more than 15 doughnuts in a month”
This operators can be combined to create advanced queries, for example “I eat 1..100 doughnut OR
Doughnuts OR donut OR donuts each *”