Did you know that there's a Google operator which will help you in terms of proximity search? And it has been around for a long time and even us here in Web Junkies did not know about this. We've just learned about it earlier this day.
What we are talking is the Google operator AROUND(n)... What is this?
The AROUND operator is a handy trick to use when you're looking for a combination of search terms when one dominates the results, but you're interested in the relationship between two query terms.
Say for example you want to search for two different keywords and you want to see the correlation between them. All you need to do is type "first keyword" AROUND(n) "second keyword", and then you'll see some proximity search results appear on Google.
A search query like “IGN Dragon Age” will mostly show IGN pages that are related to Dragon Age Video game. However, if we modify the query to look like “IGN AROUND(2) Dragon Age,” you get results where the two terms are written on the page in close proximity.
The higher the number, the less the proximity.
NOTE: the AROUND() operator MUST BE IN CAPS. The number sets the max distance between the two terms.
Note also that if Google can't find anything within the limit, it will just do regular ranking of the terms without the AROUND coming into play.
So now that you know about it, how about giving it a try?