One option for webmasters is to purchase high value backlinks, however, for those who don’t want to pay, you can search for them. The problem is that most people don’t know exactly how to find these backlink opportunities. Luckily, Google has a series of search strings pre programmed into it that will allow anyone to search for these backlink opportunities. I think I had better demonstrate…

Using the “site” search string

The site search string is used for searching in Google for results pertaining to a specific extension. As an example using a search string to imply that you are in need of a ..gov domain will filter results that have that domain extension.

This is extremely valuable for those who want to earn backlinks to ..gov & .edu domains, which as we all know, are some of the most powerful backlink types that we can possibly have. In good part, they demonstrate a high level of relevance to the search engines.

Using the “inurl” search string

This great string will specify a keyphrase that must be included in the full URL of all websites that are filtered. As an example, by placing the "blog" keyword into a search string, you would be singling out results for websites that have a very high chance of actually being a blog.

Of course, when it comes to blog commenting, this is highly valuable, as we want to find these blogs fast, and we want to make sure that we can comment on them accordingly.

Using the keyword strings effectively.

Two separate keyword strings exist that we can use. A keyword filter and a keyword subtraction. By using these filters to ad keywords to your search results means that you will discover results that pertain to your particular niche. As most webmasters are aware, by making comments on relevant blogs to your niche, this is extremely valuable.

On the other hand, there is the subtractor, which will remove any results that contain particular keywords. In particular, this search string is very handy when used to remove results that have closed comments.

How can I piece all of this together?

Each search string follows each other, in no particular order, followed by a space. Let me throw you an example to demonstrate how these are used:

site:edu inurl”blog” “Dogs” “Leave a comment” -”comments are closed”

Those example demonstrates me searching for results that have a .edu extension, that also turns out to be a blog. The results must be based on the keyword “dogs”, plus must have the words on page "leave a comment". In addition to this, pages that contain the words “comments are closed” will be removed from results.

The end result is a great search result that contains pages that will allow me to generate generate high quality backlinks in no time at all.