Did you know that a Tilde is the squiggly character sitting on your keyboard looking like this ~ located to the left of the number 1 and above the ‘ key on the US keyboard, and above the # key on a UK keyboard?

More to the point, do you know it’s use?
Basically, it’s to find associated keywords used on your site.

In the Google search bar, enter ~toys (or any keyword used on your site) and hit search.
All associated keywords to yours will be highlighted in blue.
In my example, toys, games and toy store are highlighted.

Try this with your own keywords and have some fun.

Ever wondered when Google spidered your site last, or if it’s even found your site yet?

In the Google search box again, type cache:www.artspeck.com but of course replace the name of my site with your own.

The screen which appears will show your page as it was when Google last crawled your site,
with a box of text above it showing a first line something like this:

This is G o o g l e’s cache of http://www.artspeck.com/ as retrieved on 17 Feb 2008 03:28:52 GMT.

Hopefully you will get something like this, which proves that Google knows about your site.

Finally for now, if you have a site with multiple pages, you need to know if Google has found and indexed them all.

In the Google search box, type site:kasimba.com replacing kasimba with the name of your site.

In the example given, it shows that www.kasimba.com has 9 pages, all of which are indexed.

Now go back and use the tilde to check when each and every one of your pages were indexed.

Thanks for reading my Internet-Business-Blog,

Art