How to do allintitle: search

[timpears]

I was researching some keywords and plugging them into Google with the allintitle: search function. I didn't have quotes around the term and with one five word phrase I got 10,700 as the number of competing sites.

I was talking to a friend and he said, where did you get your competition number as I see 229,000 competing sites. So I did the search again, and came up with my same number, so I thought I will check with quotes and I get the number he came up with.

So my question is, how in hades does with quotes give me a higher number? And which is the correct number? That is an awful big difference.

[outwest]

this allintitle number is meaningless
IMO, unless you apply it to just ONE site to see how many internal pages have a certain kw in the title

to get general google competition, why do you care if 10 million sites have this term in the title

your only competition is the top 10 sites on google

[yukon]

I agree with outwest. I only use that search for known competition (the pages ranking on page #1 in the SERPs), like this just to get a rough idea how serious the real competition is:

[example]
site:www.cars.com intitle:"fast cars"

BTW, are you sure your friend used the exact same search?

These search results return different results:

1) site:www.cars.com intitle:"fast cars" (2 results)
2) site:www.cars.com allintitle:"fast cars" (0 results)

Personally, I never use allintitle.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by yukon

I agree with outwest. I only use that search for known competition (the pages ranking on page #1 in the SERPs), like this just to get a rough idea how serious the real competition is:

[example]
site:www.cars.com intitle:"fast cars"

BTW, are you sure your friend used the exact same search?

These search results return different results:

1) site:New Cars, Used Cars, Car Reviews, Car Finance Advice - Cars.com intitle:"fast cars" (2 results)
2) site:New Cars, Used Cars, Car Reviews, Car Finance Advice - Cars.com allintitle:"fast cars" (0 results)

Personally, I never use allintitle.

Intersting, I thought it was ALLIntitle not intitle

[timpears]

Originally Posted by outwest

this allintitle number is meaningless
IMO, unless you apply it to just ONE site to see how many internal pages have a certain kw in the title

to get general google competition, why do you care if 10 million sites have this term in the title

your only competition is the top 10 sites on google

Meaningless to you maybe. I wanted to test something and so it means something to me. But if I did it wrong them my test results are obviously meaningless, that is why I need to know how to do it, not if it means anything to you or not.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by timpears

Meaningless to you maybe. I wanted to test something and so it means something to me. But if I did it wrong them my test results are obviously meaningless, that is why I need to know how to do it, not if it means anything to you or not.

its a technique mostly used by misinformed newbies

I used to do searches for the kw in quotes, and look at the numbers that came up

there is a lot of websites out there pushing this method. so I dont blame people for thinking its valid

[timpears]

Originally Posted by outwest

its a technique mostly used by misinformed newbies

I used to do searches for the kw in quotes, and look at the numbers that came up

there is a lot of websites out there pushing this method. so I dont blame people for thinking its valid

It is too bad that no one could answer my question. I didn't ask for your opinion on the process. I wanted to find out something and everyone blasts my using this process to find information. No one knows what I am looking for. And frankly it doesn't matter if this process is flawed or not. I wanted to find out some information.

It would be nice if someone would just answer the question I posed in my opening post.

[yukon]

No one knows what I am looking for.

Exactly!

I asked you a question above so I assume your just avoiding?

For the record I didn't blast you, I tried to help.

Good luck.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by timpears

It is too bad that no one could answer my question. I didn't ask for your opinion on the process. I wanted to find out something and everyone blasts my using this process to find information. No one knows what I am looking for. And frankly it doesn't matter if this process is flawed or not. I wanted to find out some information.

It would be nice if someone would just answer the question I posed in my opening post.

Frankly unless you give the kw and you wont
nobody can do their own check..............to verify what you are saying

what we are telling you is no matter what numbers you come up with, those numbers are useless

apparently you dont care about that fact