Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'site command'

More and more people are noticing Google's new more results user interface, where it shows a plus box, instead of taking the user to a site command like search result. You can likely reproduce the plus box yourself for a...

Posted on October 12, 2009 8:48 AM

The site command (site:www.domain.com) is often used to determine the health of a web site in a search engine. The thing is, Google's site command is far from accurate and too many SEOs look at it too closely. We discussed...

Posted on July 15, 2009 8:04 AM

Many SEOs use the site command to see how healthy their site is in a particular search engine. So you plug in site:www.mydomain.com in a search engine and the search engine will return the number of pages they have indexed...

Posted on November 26, 2008 8:10 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread uncovers a very interesting occurrence that is taking place when using a site command feature, known as the "hidden" or "invisible" site command search. If you want to search with a site command but don't want the...

Posted on September 17, 2008 8:19 AM

I am not sure if this is new but it seems if you search in Yahoo for www.domain.com, Yahoo will return results as if you submitted a site command to Yahoo. For example, a search on www.seroundtable.com returns about 18,800,...

Posted on July 15, 2008 7:54 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting, in heavy numbers, that Google is returning fewer results for sites they have in their index. What I mean is that if you do a site:www.domain.com command in Google, the number of results being returned...

Posted on August 29, 2007 7:52 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread notes that if you do a site command search using SITE: versus using site:, Google will return different results. For example, lets compare site command results for the Search Engine Roundtable. - site:www.seroundtable.com returns about 7,990 results....

Posted on June 8, 2007 7:48 AM

There have been lingering reports at both Search Engine Roundtable Forums and WebmasterWorld that Google's site command feature for the UK search engine is broken. For example, if you conduct a site:www.bbc.co.uk and restrict it to "pages from the UK",...

Posted on June 7, 2007 7:54 AM

Vanessa Fox at Google Webmaster Central posted a blog entry named using the site: command where she explains that they are updating the site command to make it more useful for Webmasters. Historically, Google has avoided showing pages that appear...

Posted on March 5, 2007 6:56 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has some credible sources claiming the site:www.domain.com, site command, at Google is becoming more accurate. In the past, conducting a site command on a domain may have returned a lot more pages than what is currently accessible...

Posted on October 30, 2006 7:31 AM

I received an email from the fine folks over at the Alacra Blog asking Is Google [site:] command broken? I did my own tests and it seemed fine when I tested it, but they had proof, an image with the...

Posted on September 12, 2006 7:29 AM