5 Time-Saving Blogging Tips Using Google Advanced Search
Here are 5 time-saving tips that will help you when you’re writing your blog posts, promoting your content or searching for some guest posting opportunities.
1. Building your network with other bloggers
When you write an article about a particular topic, it can be useful to network with bloggers that are writing about similar topics. You can type in the topic you are writing about and find results in Google but it will take you time to find relevant blogs and bloggers.
Well Google provides you with some advanced search terms and operators you can use to filter out information that will help save you a lot of time.
For example, if you’re writing a blog about tools for managing Twitter, you could run the following search in Google:
- site:.com inurl:“blog” “post a comment” -“comments closed” -“you must be logged in” “managing twitter”
The commands used are explained below:
- inurl: blog – Only return web addresses that have the word blog in them, so it’s likely to find blog posts.
- “post a comment” – I’d like the words ‘post a comment’ on the page, so I know it accepts comments.
- -“comments closed” – I don’t want the words comments closed on the page, so I know the comments are still open.
- -“you must be logged in” – I don’t want to have be logged in to enter the comment.
- “managing twitter” – I want the words managing twitter to appear within the content.
Note: There is a minus sign in front of ‘you must be logged in’ and “comments closed” to indicate you don’t want these terms.
2. Building your brand through guest posting
If you want to find guest posting opportunities within your niche, you can use Google commands.
For example, if you are looking for guest post opportunities for finance blogs, you could research using the following:
- finance inurl:guest-post
- finance inurl:write-for-us
- finance + “guest post”
- inurl:guest-post-guidelines
3. Finding supporting material for your blog posts
Sometimes you want a lot of detail related to the article you are writing or you may want to find presentations, Excel spreadsheets or other types of documents. Google provides you the facility to search by file type.
So, if you were writing an article on Facebook metrics, you could type in the following command into Google.
- “Facebook metrics” filetype: pdf
4. Finding ideas for blog posts
If you’re really stuck for an idea for a blog post, you could use posts already written for some inspiration.
For example, if you want to do a list post and it’s about sports, you could do a search for ‘7 ways’ and see what posts have this in their page title.
- Sports inurl:”7 ways”
5. Use Google instant for keyword research
A helpful way of doing keyword research is using Google instant. As you type in keywords into Google, a drop down is displayed. So Google gives you a list of similar popular searches.
SOURCE: Razor Social
