Fast Blog Finder Search Cheat Sheet
To improve or refine the results, you can use different combinations of the search query. Below is the list of the most common search options supported by Fast Blog Finder. Plus, you can search for sites using your custom footprints. Using your custom footprints you can find any sites [not only blogs] from any platform.
| # | Shortcut | Finds blogs that have… |
| 1 | email marketing | the words "email" OR "marketing" |
| 2 | email +marketing | the words "email" AND "marketing" |
| 3 | carp fishing -sea | the word "carp" OR the word "fishing" but NOT the word "sea" |
| 4 | "email marketing" | the exact phrase "email marketing" |
| 5 | "email marketing" -seo | the exact phrase "email marketing" but NOT the word "seo" |
| 6 | "email" site:.co.uk | the word "email" and the domain ending with ".co.uk" |
| 7 | email +"2 comments" | the word "email" AND 2 comments |
| 6 | "email marketing" +"3 comments" | the exact phrase "email marketing" AND 3 comments |
| 9 | ~marketing | the word "marketing" and its synonyms |
| 10 | email * marketing | the words "email" and "marketing" separated by one or more words |
Advanced Search Tips
Below you can find a few examples of the advanced search tricks that are not widely used yet may be quite effective in getting more search results:
- Search for blogs with the keywords in the URL
inurl:email - searches for the "email" word in the URL of the blog inurl:email marketing - searches for the words "email" OR "marketing" in the URL of the blog inurl:"email marketing" - searches for the "email marketing" phrase in the URL of the blog
- Search for blogs with and without "www" prefix in the URL:
"email marketing" inurl:"www." - searches for blogs with www prefix in the URL "email marketing" -inurl:"www." - searches for blogs without www prefix in the URL
- Search for blogs registered on specific domain zones (.com, .net, .biz, etc.)
"some keywords" inurl:".com" "some keywords" inurl:".net" "some keywords" inurl:".biz" "some keywords" inurl:".edu" "some keywords" inurl:".info" "some keywords" inurl:".org"
- Search for blogs registered on specific domains (example for com domains)
"some keywords" site:com - searches only for blogs registered on com domain zone site:*com - searches for blogs without a hyphen in the domain name site:com -site:*com - searches for blogs with one or more hyphens in the domain name site:*-*com - searches for blogs with one hyphen in the domain name site:*-*-*com - searches for blogs with two hyphens in the domain name site:*.*com - searches for blogs with one dot in the domain name site:*.*.*com - searches for blogs with two dots in the domain name
- Search for specific blog URLs
site:com/* - searches for blogs with one or more subdirectories in the URL site:com/*/* - searches for blogs with two subdirectories in the URL
Using these search queries you can find a few times more blogs if the blogs for the specified keywords exist and are indexed by Google.
Comments (26)
A very useful post – not only for the use of the blog finder software (which is excellent!), but for searching in general! Most people don’t know the many different ways to query the search engines…
I didn’t know the ~keyword or the keyword * keyword tricks! Thanks!
Awesome, this tool is getting better and better. Thanks for the great work you folks are doing!
I have been using Fast Blog Finder about 3 months. And this piece of software is absolutely amazing. Only today however do I manage to stumble onto the cheat sheet! LOL! Go figure! But I love it, and hopefully it will only get better and better.
thanks a lot…i happen to use this one often lately:email +”2 comments” because it shows me blogs that actually DO accept replies, and have some decent traffic 🙂
Hello,
would it be possible to see the country where the blog is hosted ?
Thx,
H.
Great tips, will try them for sure! I like how they are like google commands.
I’m very pleased to have purchased the gold edition of this software.
At the top of this page, example 3 carp fishing -sea really means carp or fishing but NOT the word sea.
More complicated search strategies really need delimiters (typically parentheses) to prevent ambiguity. For example, does A B -C mean A or (B-C) or does it mean (A or B) -C? Does FBF allow parens?
Excellent I like the new additions. I’ll download the new version.
It is a very powerful tool you have created.
Hi Julia, finally bought the s/w a week ago. Very happy with it so far! The advanced search tips are very useful. Opens my eyes to new ways of finding blogs. Also it seems to be exactly the same as google advanced search 🙂 which is nice.
I like this package. I encouraged 3 other groups to buy it and they have.
Someone upstairs there, stated that for new sites its nice to get some love from high PR sites. How does one specifically go about using this software to search for blogs of any type that are non-follow tag free and that have a high PR ?
To what i have seen so far, its just lucky when you get non non-follow blogs that also have a higher PR like 6 or PR7.
So, is there a specific search one could use?
I’ve been following Julia’s posts for some time now, and want to say that I’ve always found them to be solid, with really useful information. As Chris above says, these search tips can also be used for searching in general, in the search engines. I’m going to bookmark this page for future reference!
This software, in my judgment, is the very best tool out there for anyone who is SERIOUS about implementing a blog-commenting strategy…It is FAR ahead of similar software tools of it’s type, and I have tried several…
I really like the new search facilities, this really is a powerful tool. I’m certainly glad I upgraded to the full version.
Glad to have the list. I was wondering what operators we could use in the search.
Awesome. Appreciate the continuous development of this tool. It makes it well worth the price.
I bought Fast Blog Finder several months ago and kind of forgot about it as I work on a bunch of sites and seem to never have enough time for my own stuff.
I rediscovered it recently and wow this is a great piece of software.
It helps me to drill down on my related link possibilities.
Great job guys
Every few weeks or so I am again surprised at what this wonderful tool has to offer and how much easier it is to get mundane tasks accomplished more effectively. Thank-you again for the cheat sheet and the minutes/hours that I will certainly save in using it!
Wesley
Thanks for these tips – it is good to see that the development team want users to be able to make the best use of the product rather than creating bells and whistles which have no use.
I really like the latest addition of color coding the no follow links.
I have found several gems already with this tool 🙂 PR-7 do follow links are the best ;).
These commands will help me in a variety of ways thank you! 😀
That’s a great list of search operators you have there. Good job on the tool – It’s really simplified the comment link building process.
I have had great success using your tool. In particular I like the fact that it lists page PR as well as site PR. A feature I would love to see that I am using another tool for though is a URL extractor. I’d like to be able to select a blog and have it extract all the URL’s from that site and then show the PR for each page, not just the home page as there are many buried gems in some sites with PR4,5,6 pages.
I am glad that I came back to this post – as the new version of Fast Blog Finder really puts this to use, especially when trying to find those “precious” edu links. 🙂 One way that I have been able to take advantage of multiple searches using FBF is by using a proxy server, that way you do not have to worry about a temporarily search engine ban.
Excellent Cheat Sheet, really helps in training and in enhancing the software to squeeze it to it’s potential.
Julia,
Fast Blog Finder is the absolute best tool I have found for blog comment marketing and I’m sure I’ll find some more gems using the tips you’ve just posted.
Thanks for a great product and for the continuing development!
It’s great to find this information!
I certainly agree that comments we make in other blogs
should be meaningful…
Hey it’s a case of do unto others as you would have them do to you…
makes the world a better place.
Fran 🙂
Hi,
I have tried a number of the “free” blog search tools out there and they
still leave you with a fair amount of legwork sifting through the results.
Anyone in my shoes starting out a new site and needing to establish
some SE trust through backlinks should give this software a try. From
my estimation, it offer some very unique features you won’t find elsewhere.
My 2 Cents
George