Meerakat
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WARNING: Long Guide
There has been an increase of newbies lately, and all of them have been posting the most similar questions: "How to make money?" or "Give me some great methods to make money" and more that sounds exactly similar to both of these questions.
BHW has been around for a long-long time and has been very active since a forum like this has lots of methods + hidden gems except they are either lost or are never bumped. This guide is for newbies who have trouble searching for what they desire; hopefully, this guide helps a newbie out and prevents him/her from making the same annoying thread with similar meaning.
Let's get started.
1. Why is the search functionality not giving me the results I want?
A) BHW's search functional works and is efficient only if used correctly. You may have been using it wrong, which is why you may not be getting any results. You need to use "advanced search" to increase accuracy for the thread you are looking for, which is why you are now going to learn how you can use advanced search or even the most basic one.
2. Where do I find the search functionality?
A) The search functionality is located in the top-right corner after that notification bell. Please see the image below for more clarity.
3. I clicked on it, how do I use the "basic" search?
A) Let's say my keyword is "guest-posting guide" and I want to find threads that are related to the topic I want to find. I can just fill out the basic information needed like this:
Then we can just click search, but wait! What's "search titles only" or "by: member".
A) Sometimes the basic search may not help you get the results you are looking for, which is why most people prefer to use the advanced search. Advanced search is guaranteed to increase accuracy of your keyword provided you do it right, and it's also a bit technical when it comes to certain options.
Search everything: You may have noticed that the basic search functional searches all contents and threads, this one basically does the same except you can order it by date (it will find threads / contents accord to the date they were posted) & relevancy (it will try to find threads / contents relevant to your keyword). See the newer than field? If you think the thread / content was posted after a specific date, you can mention it there. Also, you can mention multiple keywords in the "keywords" section.
Search threads: This section may look a bit confusing, but don't worry it's easy to understand as long as you experiment with it yourself. It is similar to "search everything" except it has few options that you should know about. Like:
Search profile posts: This section is pretty simple, it searches for content in a user's profile. You are able to specify multiple names or more if you want to find posts of specific users in the posted by field and on the "posted on the profile of member" field you can specify names that may have posted in profiles of a member.
Search tags: This section allows you to find posts that have specific tags inside them, here is what a tag looks like:
People often use tags in their threads to make their topic seem more relevant. Then, there is also popular tags (tags which are used a lot). You can click on them and find posts that are related to your tag.
-Meerakat
There has been an increase of newbies lately, and all of them have been posting the most similar questions: "How to make money?" or "Give me some great methods to make money" and more that sounds exactly similar to both of these questions.
BHW has been around for a long-long time and has been very active since a forum like this has lots of methods + hidden gems except they are either lost or are never bumped. This guide is for newbies who have trouble searching for what they desire; hopefully, this guide helps a newbie out and prevents him/her from making the same annoying thread with similar meaning.
Let's get started.
1. Why is the search functionality not giving me the results I want?
A) BHW's search functional works and is efficient only if used correctly. You may have been using it wrong, which is why you may not be getting any results. You need to use "advanced search" to increase accuracy for the thread you are looking for, which is why you are now going to learn how you can use advanced search or even the most basic one.
2. Where do I find the search functionality?
A) The search functionality is located in the top-right corner after that notification bell. Please see the image below for more clarity.
3. I clicked on it, how do I use the "basic" search?
A) Let's say my keyword is "guest-posting guide" and I want to find threads that are related to the topic I want to find. I can just fill out the basic information needed like this:
Then we can just click search, but wait! What's "search titles only" or "by: member".
Searching by titles only: The basic search function searches for your keyword from the thread's content & title both, but if you tick this option, then it will only try to match your keyword with the thread's title (trust me I did not expect my post to pop-up).
This option is useful if basic search without it only gives you threads you aren't looking for as it may match contents more than the thread title itself.
Without:
As you can see, threads accurate to my keyword has reduced, otherwise ticking this option gives us more than what we are looking for as it only searches the thread's title for our keyword.
Searching by member: This option is pretty useful if you are trying to find the person who has created threads or posted content relevant to your keyword.
4. Okay, not bad so far. How do I use the "advanced search" functionality?A) Sometimes the basic search may not help you get the results you are looking for, which is why most people prefer to use the advanced search. Advanced search is guaranteed to increase accuracy of your keyword provided you do it right, and it's also a bit technical when it comes to certain options.
Search everything: You may have noticed that the basic search functional searches all contents and threads, this one basically does the same except you can order it by date (it will find threads / contents accord to the date they were posted) & relevancy (it will try to find threads / contents relevant to your keyword). See the newer than field? If you think the thread / content was posted after a specific date, you can mention it there. Also, you can mention multiple keywords in the "keywords" section.
Search threads: This section may look a bit confusing, but don't worry it's easy to understand as long as you experiment with it yourself. It is similar to "search everything" except it has few options that you should know about. Like:
- Minimum number of replies: Only find threads that pass a certain criteria of replies, a valuable thread has at-least 20-30 replies.
- Prefixes: Leave it to (Any)
- Search in forums: If you remember the forum your keyword may have the best results, then click on any forum. You may have also noticed the "search sub-forums as well" option, this option also searches for threads in the forum's sub-section. If you only click on the forum, it will search all sub-sections of the forum but if you only want to find from sub-sections of your choice; then press CTRL and click on them one by one.
- Order-by: There is also one new option this time, you can sort threads by number of replies. The more replies a specific thread has, the more it will help you find your desired result.
Search profile posts: This section is pretty simple, it searches for content in a user's profile. You are able to specify multiple names or more if you want to find posts of specific users in the posted by field and on the "posted on the profile of member" field you can specify names that may have posted in profiles of a member.
Search tags: This section allows you to find posts that have specific tags inside them, here is what a tag looks like:
People often use tags in their threads to make their topic seem more relevant. Then, there is also popular tags (tags which are used a lot). You can click on them and find posts that are related to your tag.
-Meerakat
