Adjusting Google Search Listings
Okay, now that you know how URLs are submitted to Google for indexing (by us, I'll show you another method shortly to enhance this). Let's dig deeper into the search options and how to get a more usable output for exactly what Google has indexed for you.
There are two things we're going to use here.
- Google Search - Tweaked
- A Browser Bookmarklet - a wee snippet code to display the google results for a term in a format that’s easier for copying.
STEP 1: Tweaking Google Search Settings
Open your Browser and simply go to Google.com and hopefully you'll be presented with their recent new page like this:
Notice the Settings link in the lower right corner.Click Settings and select Search Settings as indicated below:
Within the Search Settings on the next page, there are two areas to note.TheGoogle Instant Predictions is used to help performance and speed the search results up a bit. We need to temporarily change it to Never show Instant results.Doing so will enable us to change the second option Results per page to100.
So, you should now have this:
Then, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save button:
Excellent! Now, when you do a search, you won't have 10 pages or more to sift through.But, this is just one part of it.
Now, for step 2!
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paulgoodwin
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Hi PJ this is interesting and I am on the first 81/2 pages so am being indexed ok but thanks for this man really cool - best regards Paul