Google Tricks: Researching

Want to do some data-mining? It’s a great place to start when analyzing competition online. You can use a few easy search tool tricks and find a wealth of information about your competition’s website.

Type these terms into the Search Box Below:

• site:YourDomain.com – shows all of the pages for a domain that are in the Google Index
• link:YourDomain.com – Shows all of the sites that link to this domain
• allinurl:YourDomain.com – Shows all pages that refer to your sites URL
• cache:YourDomain.com – Shows the current Google cache of your site
• info:YourDomain.com – Shows information Google has about your site
• related:YourDomain.com – Pages that are similar to your site

Type the terms into this box to test them. Hit search and see what you find.