Hi, this is Matt cuts, and I wanted to give you some searching tips. So you'd be surprised how many people don't know these three or four very simple searching tips.
If you would would like to have a phrase match, you can put things in double quotes.
So for example, Matt base cuts will match documents that have the words Matt and cuts.
But if you put double quotes around that so it's Matt cuts with double quotes, it will match that exact phrase on the page. Now suppose you're interested in Mats, but not me.
You might do mat space minus cuts, and that will say only show pages that have mat, but don't have the word cuts, so that can be very handy.
So you know how to exclude words.
You know how to require exact matches or phrases.
Now what if we do a synonym?
For example, if we type in something like you do a search for auto, we might add a synonym for car.
So if you look in the snippets and you see car bolded, you're like, oh, Google is helping me out.
They're trying to search for auto and car.
That's kind of handy.
But maybe you don't want that.
In that case, put a plus right in front of auto, and then we'll only search for exactly auto.
Another good tip is to do site and then the name of a domain you can do site example.
Com and then regular stuff, and that will only match things on example. Com.
You don't just have to use the domain name.
You can use a top level domain.
For example, suppose you want information about mortgages,but you only want them from the US government.
You can do site.
Gov mortgages, and then that will require matches that end in Gov.
A nice power tip about the site feature is that you can also say sitexample.
Com and then a directory name, and that will mean searchonly and example.
Com in that directory.
So if there's something that you really like, but you only want that one subjectory, you can use that as a restriction within your site colon search.
So those are some very simple power tips.
You would be amazed at how many people don't know about phrase searches using the minus sign using the plus sign and then site.
Those are some of the very simple ways that you can get some really good results without a lot of work.