The Secret of www.domain.com Google Search

[jbgilbert]

We all know what is produced by Site:, Link: and most of the rest and they have fairly clear definitions and understandable results (although somewhat crippled!).

But in studying the following search (call it a domain name search), I have found some interesting things and would like to learn more about it's "definition" and "real meaning".

The domain search is simply searching google for this: www.yourdomain.com

Besides the following important information, what else can this search tell us?

1) If you search for www.a-banned-domain.ext, Google will show you nothing and I believe that is confirmation the site is banned in Google. (Don't bring up the site: command, because it lags behind after Google has banned a domain while all the pages of the banned domain are removed from the databases).

2) If you search for www.somedomain.org and Google rreturns results for www.somedomain.com, it tells you that some redirects for the .org that "were in place" no longer are! Used/expiring domain buyers better learn how to read this one. Why? The inbound links man -- they are likely VERY wrong.

3) It also appears that even though there are scads of Google servers and databases, this domain search delivers some of the absolute most up-to-date results -- first place you will find you are banned. My research tells me that the results of this command are so current that it may get special treatment...

So what else can this simple command (domain name search) tell us?

And you are welcome to tell me if you "think" I am wrong with my #1-#3 observations.

[jbgilbert]

Hey SEW... why is it that only certain posters at this forum get any responses?

This post was a serious question by a long time user of this forum and I seriously doubt all forum readers really understand the search command and implications I discussed.

I would have at least expected a response out of courtesy..

courtesy: a virtue, is well-mannered behavior, courtly elegance and politeness of manners, graceful politeness or considerateness with others, nobleness, generosity, benevolence, goodness. "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares."

Uh oh.. well-mannered behavior, courtly elegance and politeness of manners, graceful politeness or considerateness with others, nobleness, generosity, benevolence, goodness from SEOs and internet users? Even I don't meet those standards!

[JohnW]

I don’t think there is any lack of courtesy in deciding which posts to reply to - and to me anyway - it’s not about who the poster is, it’s only about the post. I guess some posts just don’t get responded to. It happens. Lighten up, it’s all good ;-)

[Chris Boggs]

sometimes it takes longer than a day, old timer. :)

[g1smd]

The site:www.domain.com search shows you something.

The site:domain.com and site:domain.com -inurl:www searches show you many other things.

You do not want pages showing as both www and non-www. A site-wide 301 redirect from non-www to www, one that preserves the originally requested path, fixes that problem.

If you quickly get to a message about "omitted results" then you have other duplicate content issues: specifically the same title tag and/or meta description on multiple pages. Fix that too.