The Ultimate Search Boolean for Google

Here's a search command to find great niche-related backlinks:

keyword inurl:"(com|org|edu|net|gov)\links\"
keyword inurl:"(com|org|edu|net|gov)\resources\"

For example, if you sell blue widgets just go to Google and type in the search box:

blue widgets inurl:"(com|org|edu|net|gov)\links\"

and/or

blue widgets inurl:"(com|org|edu|net|gov)\resources\"

This search command will yield results for sites related to your topic in all types of urls (.com, .org, etc.) and it will only pull the links or resources pages of those sites for you to request backlinks!

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Google Reverts Back to Your Old Title Tag

I've been noticing on a lot of sites I've worked on where I would change a page's title tag and Google has indexed the change, but a few days later it reverts back to the old title tag I had before. When the old title tag reverts back in the SERPs, it also affects the keyword rankings for that specific page. What's happening here is that the search results are hitting different data centers from Google. Google has many data centers servers that holds all the site's indexed pages online. Some data centers get updated more frequently than others. What you're seeing when you see your title tag go back to the old title tag is one of the many data centers that was not updated yet. Don't panic, wait a few days and all the data centers should be updated with your new title tag.

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De-Personalizing Google SERPs

If you're a webmaster and you check your keywords on a daily basis, then you need to de-personalize your Google search results. The reason why we do this is because Google personalizes your searches on your computer based on what sites you've clicked in the SERPs. This needs to be done when you notice that the rankings in the search results differ from computer to computer. To de-personalize your search, all you need to do is put this code at the end of the url box of the SERPs page: &pws=0

Here's where it would be placed when I search for the keyword "blog" in Google:

Before:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS276US279&q
=blog&btnG=Search

After:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS276US279&q
=blog&btnG=Search&pws=0

Once you've entered the code at the end, hit enter and the rankings should be de-personalized.

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Google's Knol Has No Dupe Check?

Google's Knol was built to rival Wikipedia. But many have claimed that people are scraping content off their site and posting them as a "knol". The worst part is that with the same content written on Google owned Knol, the person scraping the content is ranking higher than the site where the original content came from. Now I know it's still in it's beta stages but is Google favoring it's own sites over others? Can't wait to see how this will unfold a year from now.

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