These are the commands that you can use to find out more information about where your website is placed in the Google search engine. You can find out where how many pages of your site have been included in their index or even how many other websites are linking to your site.
Google at one point used to return a true amount of how many pages linked to your own, now they return what ever they feel like. Yahoo returns a much more accurate figure. Having said that, Google still is aware of all of your backlinks – just they decide not to show them. Check out the Yahoo commands for more information.
site:
If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. For instance, [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com. [help site:com] will find pages about help within .com URLs. Note there can be no space between the “site:” and the domain.
allintitle:
If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both “google” and “search” in the title.
intitle:
If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word “google” in their title, and mention the word “search” anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the “intitle:” and the following word. Putting [intitle:] in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting [allintitle:] at the front of your query: [intitle:google intitle:search] is the same as [allintitle: google search].
allinURL:
If you start a query with [allinURL:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the URL. For instance, [allinURL: google search] will return only documents that have both “google” and “search” in the URL. Note that [allinURL:] works on words, not URL components. In particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, [allinURL: foo/bar] will restrict the results to page with the words “foo” and “bar” in the URL, but won’t require that they be separated by a slash within that URL, that they be adjacent, or that they be in that particular word order. There is currently no way to enforce these constraints.
inURL:
If you include [inURL:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the URL. For instance, [inURL:google search] will return documents that mention the word “google” in their URL, and mention the word “search” anywhere in the document (URL or no). Note there can be no space between the “inURL:” and the following word.
cache:
The query [cache:] will show the version of the web page that Google has in its cache. For instance, [cache:www.google.com] will show Google’s cache of the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the “cache:” and the web page URL. If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document. For instance, [cache:www.google.com web] will show the cached content with the word “web” highlighted.
link:
The query [link:] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the “link:” and the web page URL.
related:
The query [related:] will list web pages that are “similar” to a specified web page. For instance, [related:www.google.com] will list web pages that are similar to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the “related:” and the web page URL.
info:
The query [info:] will present some information that Google has about that web page. For instance, [info:www.google.com] will show information about the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the “info:” and the web page URL.