In this post, I’ll share 15 actionable tips to help you master search operators for SEO, which are:

Most SEOs know the basics, but few have truly mastered them. They’re short commands that stick in the mind.īut knowing how to use them effectively is an altogether different story. It’s easy to remember most search operators. So you get positive results faster and as a bonus more online profiles of the same person.The “site:” operator restricts results to only those from a specified site. Another benefit is that they are often used in other online profiles. This technique is interesting because a profile picture is less frequently altered, which makes it easier to find. Google Image Search (Firefox extension).Įasier is to install a special extension in your favorite browser, for example: You can store the image in a separate folder on your desktop and then upload it via. Most likely you will find the LinkedIn profile as the first result! How does it work? For this, you make clever use of a special functionality of Google to search for (similar) images. That can happen if this person has changed the headline recently.Īnother effective way to find the LinkedIn profile is to make use of the profile picture.

A well-known technique is to search the profile via Google, using the headline, but this is not always successful. If you are active on LinkedIn with a free account than you’ll frequently face the problem that the people you’ve found are in your 3rd degree connections or out of your network, especially if you have a small (relevant) network. In this series of advanced sourcing tips for Recruiters, I show some well-known and lesser-known search techniques and strategies. Every Recruiter is by now familiar with boolean search commands but another tactic or approach can yield dramatic results. Search engines are not very intelligent and therefore it is often difficult to find what you are looking for.

Google advanced search for images