Jun
10
Google Search: site: vs. SITE: searches
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There’s a thread in the Google Search Forum that is featured on the homepage of WebmasterWorld noticing that there’s a difference between using the site: operator in upper or lower case.
The difference between the two is that lower case indicates a special operator for Google search, and upper case indicates the query mode, i.e.
FINDALL is equivalent to term1 AND term2 and is the usual search default. The engine retrieves documents that contain both terms, not necessarily in exact proximity or order.
OR means that the engine will retrieve documents that contain either of the terms, as in term1 OR term2, not necessarily both terms.
Using quotes for “term1 term2″ indicates using EXACT MATCH, meaning documents will be retrieved that contain both term1 and term2 in that exact order.
Again, many thanks to Dr. Edel Garcia for his kindness and dedication in pursuing his mission to dispel SEO myths and confusion and educate webmasters on how search works. Here is one of his many references that explain search query modes.
Jun
10
U. S. Government on Search Engine Optimization
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This page on the US Gov’t. web management site, is just about one of the simplest, clearest beginners’ guides to basic SEO you can find.
http://www.usa.gov/webcontent/community/forum/may11meeting_minutes.shtml
It’s really neat that there’s concern over search engine visibility for Government sites, and from what I’ve seen at first glance, it seems that the whole website is definitely worth browsing through.
Jun
3
All your blogs are belong to Google
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A recent patent application was filed and posted about at WebmasterWorld: Ranking Blog Documents that went by without much notice. So now that, Google has acquired Feedburner the pieces start to fit together a little more.