Customised Search: Filter Out Unwanted Search Results To Increase Online Productivity
Today I’m going to share with you one of my favourite tips. This tip is responsible for saving me a lot of time when I am searching online for specific information. This tip filters out all the unwanted searches, adverts, sponsored links and so on.
Let’s say you need to write an article about ‘email marketing‘. You type email marketing into Google, hit ‘search’ and you’ll get 92,400,000 results to wade through to find the information you need. A lot of the returned results will not be of any use to you, so what now?
Well, you need a customised search and this is easy to create using a wonderful website called Rollyo.
The following is perfect, if like me, you have a few sites that you always use for information and research purposes.
Head to the site and follow the registration steps; this only takes a minute. You’ll then want to ‘create a custom searchroll’.
You’ll be able to add details about your custom search and choose whether to make it a private or public search. Now this is the power of using Rollyo. To filter out the search results you do not wish to receive you now add just the websites you want to search. When I am undertaking research for my chosen field I always visit three websites. In the image below you will see that I’ve added these websites below. I’ve also added my own website so I can monitor what results are returned for particular search terms.
I’m making this Rollyo public and calling it ‘Marketing Guides‘. You can use it for yourself by clicking here.
When you’ve completed the steps of creating your custom search you’ll want to add it to your bookmarks for easy access. This is simply a case of ‘dragging’ and ‘dropping’ to your bookmarks bar.
Whenever you wish to refine your search just click on the bookmark and you’ll be taken straight to your customised search. You can create as many search rolls as you wish. This tip really will filter out all the junk search results that you do not need.
Now, using the search term ‘email marketing‘ in my customised search bar returns only 81,200 search results which is a lot less than Google returned. Obviously, to refine the search even more you will use more specific keywords.
You can guarantee the results are from a trusted source (you’ve already approved them), and you’ve just searched all of your selected sites in one go, saving you a lot of time if your job is heavily researched led.
You can use Wordtracker’s free keyword suggestion tool to discover more keyword phrases for your chosen search terms.
I hope you’ve enjoyed todays tip and you find it useful.
To your success,
Karl
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This will be handy when you know which niche sites to look for.Quite a nice tactic as sometimes I do hope to clear up the noise and just focus on search terms on several chosen sites, especially when those sites do not have ‘Search’ bar to begin with.
Appreciate you sharing the tip.
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Thank you. After finding your authority sites and setting up your ‘rolls’, you’ll start to save a lot of time.
That is interesting. What if you want something that you don’t know where to look for (as in, you don’t know the authority sites in the field)? I prefer to let Google weed out the junk in that case.
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Hi Anne,
Yes, you would have to know who your authority sites are but once you’ve got them Rollyo can save you a lot of time by allowing you to search across all your selected sites in one go rather than visiting each individually.
Karl