Internet Marketing ABC

In case you don’t know about Google’s advanced search yet – it’s a must for internet marketers. You absolutely need to become Google savvy. Research is one of the most important things for internet marketers, and the top-research tool is without the shadow of a doubt: Google.

But most people never make full use of the power that Google offers them. Because they don’t know about Google’s advanced search.

You can use the advanced search form, or – like really advanced Googlers – like to use advanced search queries in the normal Google interface – if you do lots of advanced searches, it’s a big time saver to learn them.

Google itself says that advanced searches use these queries less than 5% of the time and that usually a basic search is enough – but I really found that the advanced search helps me to save a lot of time, and I use it frequently – and so do many of the most successful internet marketers (like Rich Schefren and John Reese).

For example, if you would wanted to see all the instances where I use the word “research” on InternetMarketingABC.com, then you could do a Google search like this:

You could also use a query like this:

site:internetmarketingabc.com "market research"

In that case, the term “research” alone wouldn’t be enough to show up on the results, but only pages where specifically the term “market research” is used within the domain of internetmarketingabc.com would show up.

If, for example you wanted to know every instance where Rich Schefren blogged about anything that’s related to affiliate marketing, you could use the following search query:

site:strategicprofits.com/blog affiliates
(click here to see the results page)

There are lots of things this can come in handy when you do research, so I suggest you start to use it right away.