Google search operators are commands you add to a search to narrow it, such as site: for one website, quotes for an exact phrase and a minus sign to leave a word out. This builder writes them for you: fill in the fields, then open the search in Google or copy it. Four ready-made searches for SEO fill in with your own site. No signup.
How to use the google search operators
- 1Type your search words into Words. Leave it empty if you only want an operator, such as site:.
- 2Fill in only the operators you need: an exact phrase, words to leave out, a site, a file type or dates.
- 3Check the search written under Your search. Operators and values are joined with no space, which Google needs.
- 4Press Search Google to open it in a new tab, or Copy to paste it somewhere else.
When to use it
- You want a quick look at which pages of your site Google has indexed.
- You need just the PDFs, or just the blog posts, on one site.
- You want to find other sites that name your brand, with your own site left out of the results.
- You are looking for articles on a topic published after a certain date.
Worked examples
Your blog posts in Google
We typed our own blog folder into Only this site (site:) and left the other fields empty.
- Only this site (site:)
- searchblueprint.io/blog
- Your search
- site:searchblueprint.io/blog
Google lists pages it has from that folder. The count at the top is an estimate. Use the list to spot a post that should be there and is missing.
Recent checklists, no templates
We searched for title tag pages with checklist in the title, updated since 2025, and left out templates.
- Words
- title tag
- Word in the title (intitle:)
- checklist
- Leave out words (-word)
- template
- Updated after (after:)
- 2025-01-01
- Your search
- title tag intitle:checklist after:2025-01-01 -template
Use a search like this to see what already ranks for a type of page before you write your own.
Google search operators that work today
| Operator | What it does | Example |
|---|---|---|
| "phrase" | Only results with that exact phrase | "keyword map" |
| -word | Leaves out results with that word | title tag -template |
| site: | Only results from one site, folder or URL | site:example.com/blog |
| filetype: | Only one file type, such as pdf | seo checklist filetype:pdf |
| after: | Pages updated after a date | after:2025-01-01 |
| before: | Pages updated before a date | before:2026 |
| intitle: | The word must be in the page title (not in Google's documentation) | intitle:checklist |
| inurl: | The word must be in the URL (not in Google's documentation) | inurl:blog |
Google documents quotes, the minus sign, site:, filetype:, before: and after: in its Search Help and Search Central pages. intitle: and inurl: are widely used but are on neither page, so treat what they return as a sample. For checking whether one page is indexed, Google says the URL Inspection tool in Search Console is more reliable than any operator.
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