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How to Use Google to Only Search a Web Page’s Title
I remember desperately searching for a certain topic late one evening and the results that came up didn’t really seem relevant. Upon going to those pages, I noticed that at the bottom of their website, they had a bunch of the keywords that I had searched for even though the page had nothing to do with those keywords. Simply put, the website was just made up of advertisements hoping to make a quick buck off an unwitting Googler.
Keep This From Happening to You!
Normally, my story from above doesn’t happen — Google usually returns a sweet-tasting, fresh batch of ten relevant search results. But, if you find that you aren’t finding what you want to find, try searching a page’s title to get the results you want.
Searching a page’s title is fairly straight-forward, all you have to do is type in the following in a Google search box:
allintitle: enter the keywords here, but not too many since you’re only searching the title!
That will make sure that all of the words you enter after allintitle: appear in any resulting page’s title. Let’s suppose you’ve been trying to find a recipe for lemon fish. Typing in lemon fish recipe yields about 369,000 results.
You’ll notice above that the fourth result down doesn’t even have lemon in the title. Watch what happens to that result when we do an allintitle: search:
The allintitle: search takes away over 99.5% of the search results that we had just by doing a simple keyword search. It also ensures that the pages that show up on the results page contain exactly what you are looking for.
Sure, we probably discarded some useful pages, but with 369,000 results, there were bound to be some results that we didn’t really want.
What If You Don’t Want All of the Keywords In the Title?
Let’s say you are doing a similar search, but you only want to make sure that one of the keywords you enter is in the title?
Then, all you would have to do is perform a search with intitle: in front of the word(s) you want to be in the page’s title, and enter the other keywords normally without intitle: in front of them.
Below is an example of this. If you do the following search in Google:
intitle:lemon intitle:baked intitle:fish recipe
Then you will get results similar to the image below. Note that we are only requiring that the words lemon, baked, and fish be in the title. We just want to make sure that the word recipe appears somewhere in the page. You’ll notice the difference with the fifth result down. Its page title is Lemon Baked Fish. In the previous allintitle: search, that result would have been omitted because the word recipe was not in the title.
You can also see that we went from about 369,000 search results all the way down to only 445. This is good news as it means that the relevancy of our results has sky-rocketed. Every single one of those 445 search results would work out great — if only we had the time to browse them all!
If you have any questions or comments, they are welcomed below! Thanks for reading.
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