How to search Google for keywords within a specific website?
Often you may want to search a keyword within a website. Let us say you want to read the story that came on CNN about a Kansas city that renamed itself to Google in a bid to participate in Google’s high speed internet project. Instead of searching the whole web and getting numerous results (possibly unrelated), you can easily search using the the special syntax “site” that will let you search with a site. The way to use is
This search will result in pages only from cnn.com.
How to search Google for keywords in website titles?
You can also use Google to do more specific (or esoteric) searches. When Google crawls the web and indexes the web pages for ranking, it stores/uses everything in a website. You can use special syntaxes to search specific part of websites. For example, you can search the web based on what is in the title and body text of websites.
To search websites based on the content of its title, use the syntax “intitle”. For example, to search the phrase “Google Kansas” in titles of web pages
This search will result in pages with the keyword “Google Kansas” in their titles.
How to search Google for keywords in the body of websites?
You can also force Google to search for keywords only in body text of web pages using the syntax “intext” in your search. Using the “Google Kansas” example,
This search will result in pages that contain the keyword “Google Kansas” in their body text.
How to search Google for keywords in URL of websites?
These days URLs are not cryptic and to make websites more search engine friendly the URLs have rich keywords regarding what the page is about. If we want to find the correct site, it may be best to search the URL alone rather than all website contents. The way to search Google for keywords in URL is to use the syntax “inurl” . For example, searching for the keyword “Google Kansas”
This search will result in websites that have the keyword “Google Kansas” in their URLs. One can also search for keywords present in the descriptive text of a link. These descriptive texts are called anchors. To search anchors, use the syntax “inanchor” with your search query.
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