The Ultimate SEO Link Building Search Operators
Finding viable, quality websites which might then link to your own website is often a laborious and difficult process. With such a complex and vast medium, it’s difficult not to feel overloaded when trawling through pages on the net trying to find link building opportunities of any real sustenance. However, as any regular web-user will now tell you, there’s now only one way to find what you’re truly looking for on the internet – search engines. And while Google’s recent Farmer Panda update might have done all it could to try and prevent you from affecting its ‘natural’ search engine results – the following article is meant to show how Google is actually one of the most vital tools in your SEO armoury. When used properly, search operators are an ideal method for filtering good opportunities from poor ones.
So – here it is, a list of my top 10 search operators:
1. INURL:- “write for us” OR “write for me” + KEYWORD
This is ideal for finding opportunities for guest posts in your specific industry.
2. “contribute to this site” OR “contribute to our site” + KEYWORD
Again, ideal for guest post opportunities.
3. INURL:guest-post + KEYWORD
As above.
4. INTITLE:”news” [KEYWORD]
This is useful for finding news sites associated with your industry.
5. “my guest posts”
Finds several pages of places where guest posts are accepted.
6. INTITLE:“infographics” [KEYWORD]
If you use infographics as ‘link bait’ then these operators are ideal.
7. INTITLE:”widgets” [KEYWORD]
For those who use widgets as ‘link bait’.
8. INTITLE:“forum” [KEYWORD]
Ideal for finding industry specific forums where posting links could be ideal.
9. INTITLE:“directory” [KEYWORD]
Good for industry directories.
10. INURL:.org [KEYWORD]
Useful for finding high quality sites specific to your niche.
And how do I know it works? How do you think I found this site?
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Great tips! There are quite a few Google Search operators t here I didn’t know about.
Nice list of Google search operators and I usually use them to search anything,
These are awesome, thanks so much for sharing. I’ve never used these search operators before but I’ll be sure to give them a try. Thanks again.
There are many more operations, related usually to the CMS, as well there are some extra for educational and government websites which can have great value for link building.
I’ve already know some of the above mentioned tips but some are new to me… Definitely copying this to my list.
very useful yuor article.
thanks for share dude
The post is so useful. Thanks so much.
There are many advanced search operators that definitely help for link building. Actually huge part of the above are already locked by Google, so you will probably get irrelevant results.
This operators are suitable for blog commenting link building, the list of useful advanced operators is much longer. Also there are operators related to forum commenting and operators that can find websites based on different content management systems.
The funny thing is, I was searching for blogs to post on when I found this article, and it actually turned out to have some really helpful content haha.
Thanks for sharing, didn’t know about some of these operators. Will definitely them to use immediately!
Many of them are new to me.. Useful list. Thanks for sharing.
These are really great tips for all users,thanks searchtom for providing the information about SEO Link Building Search Operators.
Lovely list! I would like to add the one below.
intitle:”typeyourword” + links – Finds all the pages in Google that contyain your keyword followed by the word “links” in it’s page title. Handy for finding industry-specific links pages which web owners you can contact for backlinks.