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How to do allintitle: search

by timpears
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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.
#allintitle #search
  • Profile picture of the author 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
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    • Profile picture of the author timpears
      Originally Posted by outwest View Post

      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.
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      • Profile picture of the author outwest
        Originally Posted by timpears View Post

        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
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        • Profile picture of the author timpears
          Originally Posted by outwest View Post

          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.
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          • Profile picture of the author outwest
            Originally Posted by timpears View Post

            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
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    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.
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