Advanced Search

• site:

  Limit results to certain sites or domains. Enter the entire domain or just the TLD (.de, .com, .cz)

  site:me

  
  

  ​site:cnn.com OR site:bbc.co.uk

• author:

  Limit results to a particular author.

  author:"Helen Datsenko"

  
  

  author: Helen Datsenko

• OR and AND

  The default parameter is AND. For example, in Los Angeles returned results will contain term Los AND term Angeles in no particular order. Using OR meanwhile, Los OR Angeles, returns results containing term Los OR term Angeles.

• fuzziness

  When unsure of the spelling or can't recall the exact search, fuzziness can be used. Below fuzzy expression with a misspelled word can search for the correct term Mississippi.

  Missisipi~

• proximity searches

  Below expression will be able to search for a document that has the snippet Ahrefs has created a new tool called Alerts since the distance between Ahrefs and Alerts is 6 words.

  "ahrefs alerts"~6

• boolean operators

  Below expression states that ahrefs must be present, site must be present, and explorer must not be present.

  ahrefs +site -explorer

• grouping

  More than one term can be grouped using parenthesis:

  (ahrefs OR site) AND explorer

  note: Combinations of the operators can also be used. The below expression will find pages from domains espn.com or nba.com which contain phrase Los Angeles in the title and term Lakers in the title or in the content of the page.

  site:(espn.com OR nba.com) AND title:"Los Angeles" +Lakers