A sneak peek at some of the information found in the guide
This is by far one of the most valuable articles we've released. Written by Ann Smarty (an SEOmoz member/YOUmoz author and blogger for Search Engine Journal), the guide provides some fantastic charts that detail each engine's various search operators and compares them across the board. I've shared the Table of Contents below to get you an idea of what exactly the article encompasses:
As always, we encourage feedback from our members, so fire away and happy reading!
- Introduction: Who is This Guide For?
- How & When to Employ Tools, Queries & Web Services
- Valuable Web-Based Tools for SEOs
- Advanced Search Queries
- Google Queries
- Yahoo! Queries
- MSN/Live Queries
- Comparison of Advanced Search Operators Across Google, Yahoo! and MSN
- Other Engines & Query Sources
- Valuable Search-Related Services on the Web
- Closing: Employing Queries, Services & Tools for Direct ROI
- Purchase a PRO membership
- Individually purchase The Professional's Guide to Advanced Search Operators
As always, we encourage feedback from our members, so fire away and happy reading!
Oddly enough I was sitting in the moz conference yesterday looking for a resource that listed the search operators for all the major engines. I got frustrated and decided to look later, switching my attention to the blog to see if anything new had been posted in the past 30 minutes...and viola!
Rebecca is not only a tri-athelete, and a baked potato hunter...she's a flippen mind reader!
At long last. A new guide. I firmly believe -and I think this is what most of your pro members believe too- that you should be publishing those guides much more often.
yep, agreed
We'd like to as well; however, as you can probably tell, they incredibly time-intensive, which is one reason we've had some guest authors lately. We have a PageRank sculpting guide coming out within the next week (it's in final-edit stage), which will make three new guides in about as many weeks :)
Yeah, we horde our guides and then mass release them!
What a "great guide" -girl -camp
Wow Ann this is some great stuff, it's always nice to have a handy reference for some of the great search queries and as tom_c said having this in guide format makes it very easy to give to new employees as training material. Can't wait to read the PageRank sculpting guide coming out next week. Thanks again mozzers!
More guides. Thanks.
Love the guides. Keep them coming. Looking forward to PR sculpting next week.
Just got back and looking forward to digging in to this - nice work, Ann. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to the Yahoo and Live operators and was just looking for a good resource recently.
Thought i knew all the operators...fantasic info.
I think you should start some audio guides for us slackers who are too lazy to read. Jk
We'll get David Attenborough to narrate them. Or Morgan Freeman.
Looks like an Excellent guide! I like how guest authors are now writing some guides, it gives experienced professionals a way to contribute.
Awesome job here, Ann. I learned a few operators and gaps in my query knowledge that are really gonna help my search skills!
@zegron - you're not really going to print it out to read are you? Too ungreen, power up your Kindle instead! Oh, wait a minute...
Thanks Rebecca and Ann. I'm looking forward to reading this.
Great! I love the guides :P
Ps: Can you fix the blogging guide? After the Affiliate Program part all the text is underlined and it's very hard to read. I'm using Safari for Windows.
Hmm, we'll definitely fix the Blogging guide. Sorry about that!
I have been waiting on this one for a while, thanks
Perfect timiing to launch during SEOmoz training conference! This is my bedtime decompression reading.
Excellent job, Ann! Very nice to have recommended tools and search commands succinctly put together in one place.
What a nice surprise!
Rebecca, thank you so much. I hope there was not much trouble editing it...
Btw, I guess we should change the link and anchor for Summize (it was sold after the guide was created:)) => https://search.twitter.com/
Excellent! I can't wait to print it out and put it with my copy of "Beginner's Checklist for Small Buisness SEO". :-) thanks!
It's a shame the guide will look much worse once printed out as there are so many links to search results that demonstrate how each operator works... So please read it online first.
While I already know about and use quite a lot of the stuff listed in the guide, I certainly found some cool new stuff (especially around feeds) which I didn't know before!
Also - having it in guide format makes it INVALUABLE to hand to any new empoyees. Thanks Ann and Moz - another great guide :-)
A quality guide, even for those who know everything already :P
Cheers!
I'm glad you're finally waking up to the truth Stu ;-)
All I need is a few more SEO clients @ $300 per year and I will be able to swing that pro membership.