From the course: Advanced SEO: Search Factors
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Combined search operators
- [Instructor] To get even more information out of a Google search, it helps to start combining search operators. Almost every search operator can be combined with another search operator to really help refine your results. Let's say we want to identify if our site has any issues with what's appearing in the index. Let's do site, colon, google.com, and then we can do minus, inurl, dub dub dub. And what this will do is bring back any results that come up with a subdomain. Here, I can see assistant.google, translate.google, news, G Suite, and so on. Now, in many cases, a lot of sites have a staging site or a CDN or some piece of content that's only used for marketing landing pages, and this shouldn't be showing up in the index. When it shows up in the index, it ends up wasting significant crawl resources. And this is a great way to search to see if anything that shouldn't be showing up outside of your dub dub dub…
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