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Google site:command usage
Google sums up how searchers, webmasters and SEOs use the site:command.
Vanessa Fox:
The site: command enables you to search through a particular site. For instance, a searcher could look for references to [Buffy] in this blog by doing the following search:
site:googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com buffy
Webmasters sometimes use this command to see a list of indexed pages for a site, like this:
site:www.google.com
So what happens when SEOs do a site:command that doesn’t show a full list of results? They go nuts!
Google’s response:
In some cases, a site: search doesn’t show a full list of results even when the pages are different, and we are resolving that issue as well. Note that this is a display issue only and doesn’t in any way affect search rankings. If you see this behavior, simply click the “repeat the search with omitted results included” link to see the full list.
Because this change to show all results for site: queries doesn’t affect search rankings at all, it will probably happen in the normal course of events as we merge this change into the next time that we push a new executable for handling the site: command.
I have to admit that I find these moments to be extremely amusing because normal people who use the site:command to search websites for stuff like my wife (a librarian) have no clue about “indexing” if you know what I mean.
I used the site command just last night to find links on this site that go against Google’s guidelines. I found that SEO buzz box was linking out to a site in an interview that “went graybar” and is considered a “bad link neighborhood”, so I broke that association by removing the link.
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March 4th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Was the site you removed Kloakit.com?
March 4th, 2007 at 6:45 am
Yes but I did leave the entire interview.