Search options

Search options

The webpages maintained by the Google Help Center have text describing more than 15 various search options.^[31] The Google operators:

• OR – Search for either one, such as "price high OR low" searches for "price" with "high" or "low".
• "-" – Search while excluding a word, such as "apple -tree" searches where word "tree" is not used.
• "+" – (Removed on October 19, 2011).^[22] Force inclusion of a word, such as "Name +of +the Game" to require the words "of" & "the" to appear on a matching page.
• "*" – Wildcard operator to match any words between other specific words.

Some of the query options are as follows:

• define: – The query prefix "define:" will provide a definition^[31] of the words listed after it.
• stocks: – After "stocks:" the query terms are treated as stock ticker symbols^[31] for lookup.
• site: – Restrict the results to those websites in the given domain,^[31] such as, site:www.acmeacme.com. The option "site:com" will search all domain URLs named with ".com" (no space after "site:").
• intext: – Prefix to search in a webpage text, such as "intext:google search" will list pages with word "google" in the text of the page, and word "search" anywhere (no space after "intext:").
• allintitle: – Only the page titles are searched^[31] (not the remaining text on each webpage).
• intitle: – Prefix to search in a webpage title,^[31] such as "intitle:google search" will list pages with word "google" in title, and word "search" anywhere (no space after "intitle:").
• allinurl: – Only the page URL address lines are searched^[31] (not the text inside each webpage).
• inurl: – Prefix for each word to be found in the URL;^[31] others words are matched anywhere, such as "inurl:acme search" matches "acme" in a URL, but matches "search" anywhere (no space after "inurl:").

The page-display options (or query types) are:

• cache: – Highlights the search-words within the cached document, such as "cache:www.google.com xxx" shows cached content with word "xxx" highlighted.
• link: – The prefix "link:" will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage, such as "link:www.google.com" lists webpages linking to the Google homepage.
• related: – The prefix "related:" will list webpages that are "similar" to a specified web page.
• info: – The prefix "info:" will display some background information about one specified webpage, such as, info:www.google.com. Typically, the info is the first text (160 bytes, about 23 words) contained in the page, displayed in the style of a results entry (for just the 1 page as matching the search).
• filetype: – results will only show files of the desired type (ex filetype:pdf will return pdf files)

Website Analysis Tools

Free SEO Tools for Website Analysis

Most of the SEO Professionals needs to send number of SEO proposals to new clients often. Also, they would like to have quick analysis on each website before sending the proposal. Following are top 3 free online tools which will help you while doing website analysis.

1. woorank
2. Site Trail
3. Hubspot's Marketing Grader

1. Woorank:

Woorank is one of the best free tool for basic SEO analysis. Woorank team is putting their maximum efforts to optimize this tool. SEO Professionals who would like to know about any site in a single click can approach this tool without any doubt. One good thing is it’s always free and clean interface with no ads. Following are the couple factors this tool analyzes about a website:

• SEO Suggestions
• Visitor’s information
• Social Share data
• SEO Tech Info
• SEO Tags Data
• Link Evaluation
• Keyword Analysis
• Website Authority & Back links
• Usability & Security
• Tracking & Technologies

 2. Site Trail:

Site Trail is another free SEO tool for website analysis. It’s little new compared to woorank. It’s also offering the same kind of features in woorank. However Site Trail team has few more additional features to their tool i.e. Hosting, Server, DNS Records & HTTP headers information. Following are the list of features it offers:

• Social Media Stats
• Basic SEO Data
• Visitors Analysis
• Traffic Rank Details
• Content & Linking Analysis
• Hosting & Server Info
• DNS & HTTP header Records

3. HubSpot’s MarketingGrader:

It will give little in-depth analysis of any website. This tool is able to recognize whether your site is a blog or not. It’s good to test one of your sites personally on this tool, so that you will have a better idea. If you are marketing professional then you will worth testing it. Listed below major features:

• Blogging analysis
• SEO Info
• Mobile Compatibility check
• Social Stats
• Analytics

Panda Update History

We’ve had a string of updates since then, as follows, along with the percentage of queries Google said would be impacted:

1)Panda Update 1.0, Feb. 24, 2011 (11.8% of queries; announced; English in US only)

2)Panda Update 2.0, April 11, 2011 (2% of queries; announced; rolled out in English internationally)

3)Panda Update 2.1, May 10, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)

4)Panda Update 2.2, June 16, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)

5)Panda Update 2.3, July 23, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)

6)Panda Update 2.4, Aug. 12, 2011 (6-9% of queries in many non-English languages; announced)

7)Panda Update 2.5, Sept. 28, 2011 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)

8)Panda Update 3.0, Oct. 19, 2011 (about 2% of queries; belatedly confirmed)

9)Panda Update 3.1, Nov. 18, 2011: (less than 1% of queries; announced)

10)Panda Update 3.2, Jan. 18, 2012 (no change given; confirmed, not announced)

11)Panda Update 3.3, Feb. 27, 2012 (no change given; announced)

12)Panda Update 3.4, March 23, 2012 (about 1.6% of queries impacted; announced)

13)Panda Update 3.5, April 19, 2012 (no change given; belatedly revealed)

14)Panda Update 3.6, April 27, 2012: (no change given; confirmed; first update within days of another)

15)Panda Update 3.7, June 9, 2012: (1% of queries; belatedly announced)

16)Panda Update 3.8, June 25, 2012: (about 1% of queries; announced)

17)Panda Update 3.9, July 24, 2012:(about 1% of queries; announced)

18)Panda Update 3.91, Aug. 20, 2012: (about 1% of queries; belatedly announced)

19)Panda Update 3.92, Sept. 18, 2012: (less than 0.7% of queries; announced)

20)Google Panda Update 20 Released, 2.4% Of English Queries Impacted

Tools of copy contant

10 Top Tools For Checking Duplicate Content

Doesn’t your heart aches when you saw an article originally written by you, being used or rather misused “as it is” or with “little jiggling of words” in some other site? You spend hours and sometimes even days to publish an article after intensive research only to see it being used in numerous other websites, without being acknowledging or informing you.
Well this is what Plagiarism is known as. To take care of this sensitive issue of Plagiarism there are certain tools available online that not only helps you check your content being published elsewhere with or without your knowledge but also helps you to check duplicate content on your website too.
Thus these duplicate checking tools are helpful both ways. You can check your content being copied elsewhere and on the other hand also let you know if your content writers are intentionally or unintentionally doing the same thing with you. We have included only those top Duplicate content checkers, which we thought, are useful to you, but you are always welcome to share any other important tool available online which we might have missed. By the way did we mention that all these Duplicate Content Checker tools are free to use, although you can always switch to pro version depending upon your utility.
If you like this article, you might be interested in some of our older articles on Web Development Tools, Apps For Cloud-Based Web Dev, Website Analytics Tools, and Network Monitoring Tools.

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Duplicate Content Checker Tools

Four Free Duplicate Content Checker Tools

1. Copyscape

One of my favorite, reliable and accurate tool is copyscape, which provides me the ability to search published and unpublished articles against duplicate content issue. The tool will search all pdf files, internet websites, blogs, forums etc and find the locations with links from where a article is copied.
The tool is free, but in free package you can only search already published articles through its link. If you want to check a unpublished article then you need to buy credits. 1 credit is charged for checking a article having maximum 2000 words. You can buy 200 credits for just $10 ($.05 per credit).
If you deal with high volume of content then you can get premium IP to integrate the tool in your CMS and search all the articles inside your blogging platform.

2. Duplichecker

Another free tool where you can check unpublished articles for free is duplichecker. You can either paste the article or upload the .txt file to let the tool search the article and find out if it is copied or a unique one. It can use Google, Yahoo and MSN indexer to search the duplication on internet. However the recommended indexer is Google.com

3. Plagiarisma

This tool has 3 option that allows you to detect duplicate content issue. You can search the whole text, or URL of a article or you can upload a .txt, .doc, .rtf etc files. More then 190 languages are supported by the tool and the accuracy of the result is sure.

4. Plagium

This tool allows you to paste a article having maximum 25,000 characters. It is one of the best alternative of copyscape tool having advance features. Get email alerts when your article is copied, work with yahoo, bing and google indexer.
They also offer premium membership where you can buy 60,000 characters for just $1 (around 12 searches) and 1000,000 characters for just $10 (around 220 searches).