Awesome Post Matt .. that was very helpful indeed! However just have a quick question as far as the search op. Which combination do you think provides the best results as far as accuracy without filtering out all possible places to post?
Would a simple: allintitle:my target keyword
Be enough to get me relevant results + good volume or do you add other search operators? If so ..are you able to get past 200 scraped results for a general niche?
I am inclined to believe that something like:
intitle:"my target keyword" intext:"keyword"
Would have to yield better results... I'll try it out in a few mins and I'll report back w my findings...
BTW, I understand the golden point you made about page 100 results not being as relevant as results found in page 1 for a particular keyword, however I just want to find the best combination of search operators which will yield the best results because it seems to me (and pls correct me if I am wrong) that just throwing a list of keywords in the keywords box will show a boatload of results that may not be as relevant as if we were to use search operators such as "intitle" "intext" etc...
That feature is already in SB... just load the list of sites you posted to and run a link check from the comment poster section. Once it is done you can export the list of sites where your live link was found (in txt format) ... can't get a better report than that!
Quickly again (sorry I am in and out today, hopefully more time tomorrow)
On the search operators.
If your going to use:
intitle:"my target keyword" intext:"keyword"
intitle:"my target keyword" +intext:"keyword"
Both return different results. You could also combine the allintitle in there. It would really depend on your keywords. If you want to pm me an example I can mull it over and see what I can come up with.
But if I wanted say a Windows theme that was a car theme. If I use all in title and put windows vista themes it could bring up a broader array of results then useing intitle:"windows vista themes intext"car"
Cause the all in title could bring up a title that was themes for windows vista. Where using the quotes on intitle:"Windows vista themes" would not retun that result cause the quotes make it specific to being exactly in that order.
Using example one above google searches both terms separately and then averages the best results together. (I think, but I am not completely sure, and they change their algo all the time so who really knows anything
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Where as using the second example above with the extra + google would search for only pages where both appeared together. Anyway, it returned different results when I tried it.
Just throwing keywords in the box would return a boatload of results that may not be relevant.
That said it would depend on your niche and how specific you wanted to get. I would say start with keywords, if that doesn't do it, go to something like allintitle and if that doesn't return results you like try something with "" like the intitle intext deal. Also it could depend on the blog platform you are looking for and other things you may want to add into your footprint.
However, it would seem to me if you are wanting to drill all the way down to exact words and phrases in an exact order in the title and in the text that unless you have a massive niche that you may just want to comment on these pages manually as there won't likely be all that many of them. I mean at that point I would just pull the domains, trim to root, pull a site:%KW% and then check the PR of all the urls. Then just go manually comment on the most favorable ones. Just my 2 cents.
Anyway, off to watch a movie with the wife. Catch you tomorrow and we can discuss search theory a little more.
