Google SE "Tricks" - Are They Useless?

[bbott]

Is there any point to allinachor:, allintext:, and allintitle: searches? My website is ranked top 15 for some keywords for all three techniques and I am no where to be found in google. Are these searches even relevant or useful to webmasters?

My site is rather new, could be sandboxed but I doubt it.

Opinions ?

[hugoguzman]

Those google commands are useful to a webmaster, but only as a gauge for the effectiveness of on-page factors (like title tag content, etc..).

The most significant factor contributing to search engine position is the potency, relevance, and amount of backlinks pointing to your site.

Focus on acquiring powerful and relevant backlinks with optimized anchor text and build new pages of content for your site. You'll be fine.

[bbott]

Originally Posted by hugoguzman

Those google commands are useful to a webmaster, but only as a gauge for the effectiveness of on-page factors (like title tag content, etc..).

The most significant factor contributing to search engine position is the potency, relevance, and amount of backlinks pointing to your site.

Focus on acquiring powerful and relevant backlinks with optimized anchor text and build new pages of content for your site. You'll be fine.

Ok so if i am ranking top 10 for all those search methods and i have a good amount of relevant backlinks coming in - then i should be ranking well correct ?