{"id":66286,"date":"2011-12-11T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=66286"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:55:44","slug":"daily-tip-google-search-tip-for-power-searchers-intitle-and-intext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-google-search-tip-for-power-searchers-intitle-and-intext\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search Tip for Power Searchers \u2013 Intitle and Intext"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lightbox[66286]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-google-search-tip-for-power-searchers-%e2%80%93-intitle-and-intext\/searcher-big\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66288\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66288\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/searcher-big.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"653\" height=\"590\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No matter what your niche, the more deeply you get into your topic, the more you will need to be adept at doing some heavy duty Googling at some point or another.<\/p>\n<p>For example, let\u2019s say you wanted to do a search on WordPress and Matt Cutts (an engineer from Google\u2019s Search Quality team).<\/p>\n<p>Because you want WordPress to be the main focus, you will want to search for &#8220;WordPress&#8221; in the title. So you would start with a search operator like this.<\/p>\n<pre>allintitle: wordpress<\/pre>\n<p>It would be nice if you could find pages that focused enough on Matt Cutts in relation to WordPress in order to put both \u201cWordPress\u201d and \u201cMatt Cutts\u201d in the title. For that, you could just add \u201cMatt Cutts\u201d to your search, like this:<\/p>\n<pre>allintitle: wordpress matt cutts<\/pre>\n<p>or even this:<\/p>\n<pre>allintitle: wordpress \"matt cutts\"<\/pre>\n<h2><strong><br \/>\nExpand Your Search<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You may find some good info with that search, but the truth is you are probably limiting yourself and bypassing pages that would be very useful to you. While your main topic is \u201cWordPress,\u201d and you know that should be in the title, you might be able to find some very interesting pages where \u201cMatt Cutts\u201d is simply somewhere in the body of the text.<\/p>\n<p>And so to search for that, you might use a search like the following:<\/p>\n<pre>allintitle: wordpress allintext:matt cutts<\/pre>\n<h2><strong>Hold On \u2013 That Doesn\u2019t Work!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s a nice idea, but it doesn\u2019t actually work. When you use these two search operators (allintitle: &amp; allintext:) together, you get nothing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=allintitle%3Awordpress+allintext%3Amatt+cutts\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allintitle: wordpress allintext:matt cutts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The solution is to not use allintitle and allintext, but instead, use <strong>intitle<\/strong> and <strong>intext<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<pre>intitle: wordpress intext:matt cutts<\/pre>\n<p>That search produces over 600,000 results: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=intitle%3Awordpress+intext%3Amatt+cutts\" target=\"_blank\">intitle: wordpress intext:matt cutts<\/a> .<\/p>\n<h2>Dig Into Search Operators<\/h2>\n<p>Digging past the standard search operators that most people know can be a boon for your search efforts. Need a nice guide for advances search operators? Here\u2019s a good one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googleguide.com\/using_advanced_operators.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoogleGuide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigstockphoto.com\/image-23676236\/stock-photo-curious-detective-looking-through-magnifier\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Curious Detective Looking Through Magnifier<\/a> from BigStock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to find just what you need in Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":66287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[35],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-66286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216267,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66286\/revisions\/216267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66286"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=66286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}