What am I doing wrong?????

[Edna Barone]

my string is:
site:www.linkedin.com "svp" OR "account director" promotions (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -inurl:dir
searching for a SVP with promotions exp   can anybody help me?

[gary cozin]

Seems to be nothing wrong with your string, Edna

Your string does work as there are over 4K results using Google, however you are getting just "account directors" vs SVP "account directors" since you have an OR in between. Try this one to get closer to SVP's

site:www.linkedin.com (svp OR "senior vice president") "account director" promotions (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -inurl:dir

Gary

[Chris Gormley]

Hi Edna:

I seem some cleaning up you might do in your syntax, but I think perhaps before we get to that your search criteria is quite broad.
Consider location, technical skills or industry as additional qualifiers. Then you might add those to:

site:linkedin.com (("vice president" | svp | vice-president) promotions) (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -intitle:dir -inurl:dir

[gary cozin]

Chris - just a note - if you don't put an area in your string, you need to use site:www.linkedin.com otherwise with just site:linkedin.com you will get results from all countries vs just the US. Not sure if Edna can use results from anywhere in the US which is why she may not have put a location in.

Gary

Chris Gormley said:

Hi Edna:

I seem some cleaning up you might do in your syntax, but I think perhaps before we get to that your search criteria is quite broad.
Consider location, technical skills or industry as additional qualifiers. Then you might add those to:

site:linkedin.com (("vice president" | svp | vice-president) promotions) (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -intitle:dir -inurl:dir

[Chris Gormley]

Thanks Gary:

You are tops!

Chris

[Edna Barone]

Thanks so much for helping me. Your string "terrific"!! thanks for clearing my head.

gary cozin said:

Seems to be nothing wrong with your string, Edna

Your string does work as there are over 4K results using Google, however you are getting just "account directors" vs SVP "account directors" since you have an OR in between. Try this one to get closer to SVP's

site:www.linkedin.com (svp OR "senior vice president") "account director" promotions (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -inurl:dir

Gary

[Edna Barone]

Thanks to both of you, both have helped me with this.

[Christine McKenzie]

Gary - Great Tip on the site command to pull US results...I have been wondering about that! As always, thanks for sharing!

Chrissy