Comments on: Google’s link: Command Revisited

By: Rob Andrews

Rob Andrews — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:25:47 +0000

The ‘related:’ command will show some results from your site, but should only show a few of these. Like the ‘link:’ command the results on this a re somewhat broken, but can provide some insight into how Google sees your site. If you mix the ‘-site:’ command in with your ‘related:’ search this will take out your site references, but will also break the results even more. However, as mentioned before this can give you some ‘outside of the box’ insight in some ways.

By: jackin

jackin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:38:49 +0000

When i use this related command it shows a nice result but it also shows me the many inner pages of my website also.

By: Rob Andrews

Rob Andrews — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:25:35 +0000

Hi Jackin,

To use the ‘related:’ command you just need to type ‘related:www.yourwebsite.com’ (obviously swap ‘yourwebsite.com’ with you own site). Again, this is a pretty flaky set of results, but you can get a picture of what Google thinks you site is about. This is dictated by the content of your site, your inbound links and (importantly) your outbound links. So if a site links to a lot of unrelated sites, don’t be surprised if Google starts to think that you are off topic, etc. I will do some check with this command and some other operators.

By: jackin mathis

jackin mathis — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:22:19 +0000

What a great artilce and one thing like most and enjoy looking the results for this command – link:www.site.com -site:www.site.com.
But i am eager to know, like u told on article about related command but can u tell me how to use this command?

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