What do these keywords mean?

fennman · 05-18-2006, 05:30 AM

I have recently set-up an analytics account for a new website. Today is the first time that I have received traffic through Google... Wayheee!

Absolutely delighted... but unfortunately confused also.

To give you a couple of examples that have led to my confusion:

green+widgets+large+++New+York

New+York+-+green+widgets+photos

I don't know what the +'s and -'s mean.

Could anyone explain what search terms were used to generate the above keywords.

Many thanks in advance.

mondine · 05-18-2006, 11:34 AM

Those search operators are fairly literal. That is, a "plus" sign (+) is put before a word to ensure that it is included in the search,
as is the minus sign (-) to make sure a term is excluded.
Basic Search and also see Advanced Search

acme1 · 09-02-2006, 04:16 AM

font size="-1"Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to
Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different
type of search. For instance, "link:" is a special operator, and the query [link:www.google.com] doesn't do a
normal search but instead finds all web pages that have links to www.google.com./font

ssomaxp · 09-20-2006, 08:22 AM

span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"Thank you , i had learn more about analytic now.br/span

05-18-2006, 05:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
fennman Noogle Join Date: May 2006 Location: Ireland Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	What do these keywords mean? I have recently set-up an analytics account for a new website. Today is the first time that I have received traffic through Google... Wayheee! Absolutely delighted... but unfortunately confused also. To give you a couple of examples that have led to my confusion: green+widgets+large+++New+York New+York+-+green+widgets+photos I don't know what the +'s and -'s mean. Could anyone explain what search terms were used to generate the above keywords. Many thanks in advance.

05-18-2006, 11:34 AM	#2 (permalink)
mondine Google Guru Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Vancouver, BC. Posts: 4,003 Thanks: 0 Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts	Those search operators are fairly literal. That is, a "plus" sign (+) is put before a word to ensure that it is included in the search, as is the minus sign (-) to make sure a term is excluded. Basic Search and also see Advanced Search __________________

09-20-2006, 08:22 AM	#4 (permalink)
ssomaxp Noogle Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Good information span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"Thank you , i had learn more about analytic now.br/span

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acme1 Noogle Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Karachi-Pakistan Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	font size="-1"Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search. For instance, "link:" is a special operator, and the query [link:www.google.com] doesn't do a normal search but instead finds all web pages that have links to www.google.com./font

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