Thursday, May 14, 2009
Google Toolbelt Tells Which Of Your Pages Were Recently Indexed or Linked
Google’s new “show options” feature*, rolled out for everyone this week, lets you restrict results to just pages from the past 24 hours. You can use this feature in combination with Google’s “site” and “link” operators, too. Here’s how:
- Finding newly added pages: Say your site is example.com. Enter site:example.com into Google, and you’ll see all pages Google indexed from you. Now click the “Show options...” link on top of the search result. In the left hand bar that appears, click “Past 24 hours”. (You can additionally “Sort by date”, but I noticed that this would sometimes not show all pages.) Doing this for blogoscoped.com, I’m seeing the frontpage (because it was changed), new forum threads, and new posts. (I’ve also spotted a somewhat malformed link that was indexed.)
- Finding new links to your pages: To find backlinks, simply repeat the procedure as above but use link:example.com instead. After you clicked “Show options” and “Past 24 hours”, you’ll find other websites which linked to your site. This can help you uncover the discussion happening around your site. (Note another way to find backlinks is to enter your page’s full URL into Google Blog Search.)
*It’s codenamed “toolbelt” at Google, I’m told.
Update: Michael VanDeMar comments:
The link: command is treated as a text based search, not a special operator, when combined with the date based parameters. It has always been like this.
In many cases mentions of a domain name, especially those that are not keyword based, will also happen to have links to that domain, but that doesn’t make it a link: search, just a mention one.
[Thanks Michael!]
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