site vs allinurl

not sure what this means

[nippi]

I have 1 site that has gone from 160,000 pages in google when I do allinurl:mydomain.com, but all pages remain in the index when i do site:mydomain.com

Can anyone explain this?

[kartiksh]

allinurl: = Pages that refer to your site's URL
site: = Indexed pages in your site
link: = Pages that link to your site
cache: = The current cache of your site
info: = Information Google have about your site
related: = Pages that are similar to your site

[g1smd]

What is the difference between inurl: and allinurl: then ?

[kartiksh]

I am not too sure on that but in my opinon, that was old term, which is now refered as allinurl:

PS: i wrote above glossary from sitemaps account.

[Nikith]

IMO allinurl will search for all the words. For ex allinurl:web master world will result in URLs having all the 3 words web master world in URL. Think you can understand when you try out a similar search in Google

[selomelo]

inurl: returns pages with any of the specified keywords in the url. (e.g. inurl: kw1 kw2 returns pages with either kw1, kw2 or both in their urls).

allinurl: returns pages with all of the specified keywords in the url. (e.g. allinurl: kw1 kw2 returns pages that contain both kw1 and kw2 in the url).

hth.

[nippi]

wouldn't all site: pages be included in allinurl: assuming there was a link to your home page?

Shouldn;t then allinurl" always be greater?

Or is a link to /(from within own site, to link to root) not seen in allinurl: where as a link to www.domain.com/ within own site IS included in allinurl?

[BigDave]

inurl: will return any site with the immediatly following keyword in the URL.

allinurl:fred flinstone barney rubble
is the same as
inurl:fred inurl:flintstone inurl:barney inurl:rubble

You can use inurl with additional search terms. For example you can do a search on [cheese inurl:php] which will return pages about cheese and have php in the URL.

[daveVk]

inurl:(allinurl:) and site: treat supplemental pages differently, at least for my site, site: includes supplemental pages whereas inurl: does not.

This a not the full story see other recent threads concerning site:, in some cases it seems to work like inurl: or other none site: searchs, that is returning supplemental pages only if to few pages in main index.