Mar
22nd

Get a quick view of a website’s presence in Google’s index

Here is a little trick to use if you’d like to know more about a website’s indexation on Google.

The “link:” option

This option allows the webmasters to see rapidly what are the websites, known by googlebot, that are linking to a particular website.

The “site:” option

The site option, is used like this : “site:bytheowner.com“. This search returns all the pages indexed by GoogleBot of the website entered after site:. You can also enter keywords at the beginning like the following examples to search for something on a specific website.

If you’d like to read more about this function, visit Google’s Blog at :
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-site-command.html

Frédérick Dubois, ByTheOwner.com
Web development and programming

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