Difference between site:domain and domain search

[dukelips]

whats the difference between site:www.yourdomain.com and www.yourdomain.com (when typed in google)

[Marcia]

>whats the difference

>>www.yourdomain.com (when typed in google)

Is just looking for that as text that appears on a page.

>>site:www.yourdomain.com

Is an advanced operator looking for pages indexed from the domain (or host)

[google.com...]

But it's actually best to search for site:example.com without the www. since technically www. is a subdomain and doing a site: search without it will return the domain root as well as any subdomains. It will also help spot canonical issues.

[dukelips]

for my site site:domain.com shows a total of 713 pages while for domain.com it shows a total of 1420 pages

is there any relation between the two

[tedster]

The relationship is exactly as Marcia described. The domain search, as with any ordinary search, will only return a maximum of two urls from your domain -- so the rest of those results are other urls on the web that mention your domain. The site: operator search will return all the cirrently indexed urls from your domain alone.

[dukelips]

is it someway connected to link:domain.com