Struggling with a Google X-Ray Search String for a Linkedin search

[David Evans]

Hi there,

I'm a newbie to this forum so thanks for having me.

I'm attempting to use the Google X-Ray search function but i'm a little lousy at it. I’m hoping someone is able to help me with my search string for the following search:

1. Country : Australia
2. Postal Code: “3000” (‘3000’ is the postcode for ‘Melbourne Area, Australia’)
3. Within: 10mi (15km)

4. Title : "Financial Controller"

5. Current/Past: Current

The closest I come to the string for the above desired search is as follows:

site:au.linkedin.com "Current * * Financial Controller" "Location * Melbourne Area, Australia"

(I do this on google.com/ncr)

I’m not entirely sure how to capture the postcode / radius etc, or whether I’m even putting the variables in the search string correctly. Anyway, the following image shows how I’d be inputting the data into my Basic Linkedin account, which incidentally returns 753 names:

http://i.imgur.com/QfCNvrb.png

I am hoping I’ll be able to see the following fields in the preview lines of Google’s search results page (or something very similar)

Name;
Current Title;
Current Company;
Industry;
Location;

http://i.imgur.com/Bhp2PWp.png

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

[Dave Galley]

David,

You really can't do a radius-from-postcode type search on LI via x-ray.

That said, you can clean up your current string with a slight modification:

site:au.linkedin.com -pub.dir "Current * * Financial Controller" "Location * Melbourne Area, Australia"

The visible results will mostly be showing the info you want.

[David Evans]

Thanks Dave 

Just out of interest, what 'clean up' in this case mean?

im not familiar with what the '-pub.dir'

Thanks again for coming back to me

[Dave Galley]

David,

By 'clean up' I meant remove directory pages from the results - this piece:

-pub.dir

Tells Google that you do not want any pages including the 'word' pub closely tied to the 'word' dir, anywhere in the page (body, URL, or title). Since directory pages from LinkedIn have "pub/dir" (next to eachother) in the URL, they get filtered out.

You could theoretically be removing non-directory results, I suppose. For example, If someone had "pub. dir. at leading company" on their profile... I'm not sure what pub or dir be abbreviated from in this hypothetical example, publicity director? Nothing to worry about generally, but it's good to know when you said "don't include this" what you are actually excluding.

[David Evans]

Thanks for clarifying Dave. The search string is working great now 

[David Evans]

Hi Dave

Is it possible to search for multiple job titles in the one string? ie.:

site:au.linkedin.com -pub.dir "current * * financial controller OR finance manager OR chief financial officer" "location * melbourne area, australia"

 or...

site:au.linkedin.com -pub.dir "current * * financ*" "location * melbourne area, australia"

Thank you

[Chris Lyon]

It is absolutely possible. The only limit is your imagination 

[Justin Johnson]

Try this,

site:au.linkedin.com "Current" *  " * Controller" * "Melbourne" * "Australia"

[Justin Johnson]

site:au.linkedin.com (inurl:in OR inurl:pub) -intitle:directory -inurl:dir -inurl:jobs “Current” * “* Controller *” * “Melbourne *” “Austrailia

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