Social Email Extractor Keywords (Advanced)

Overview

Note: These operators (both the common and advanced - detailed below) can used with the URL extractor tool.

The use of advanced operators within Social Email Extractor allows users to have a more accurate email lists. Understanding these operators gives users great flexibility, accuracy and control over their extraction sessions. For simplicities sake the operators are the same as the Google search engine. Operators fall within two categories where SEE is concerned: Common Operators and Website Restrictive Operators. The Common Operators are self-explanatory although more information specific to the Quotation Operator within the Common Operator pool has been provided below due to its importance for extraction.

All Operators presented within the section are intended to be used within the Keyword Box as a means of setting up your extraction session but can also be used with the URL extractor tool.

Quotation Operator

"Keyword"

Surrounding a keyword phrase with quotations will allow you to scrape from pages that contain the keyword phrase exactly as it is presented. For example, let’s say you’re targeting a niche for shoe lovers and one of your keywords is Red Shoes.

Keywords:
"Red Shoes"

Using the keyword "Red Shoes" with quotes within the keyword box will always return pages that contain these two words together as in the following example:

…She loved her red shoes…

Using the keyword without quotes will still produce a target niche of emails, however, you may end up with some undesired results.

Keywords:
Red Shoes

Social Email Extractor will return pages with the words specified within your keyword box, however, they may not be specific to the niche that you’re targeting. Using the keyword phrase Red Shoes without quotations could return a page (and subsequent email) from such content as in this example:

…Her face was red with anger as she stomped her shoes in a fit of dismay on the floor…

While in most cases such results won’t be so farfetched from the target niche it is important to keep this operating in mind when you’re using a keyword with more than one keyword (keyword phrase).

Advanced Operators Table (Common Operators)

Website Restrictive Operators Overview

This pool of operators will restrict or otherwise assist you in being very specific with the types of pages you wish to extract from. Although they may not be necessary for general extraction purposes, the Restrictive Operators allow for more flexibility and extraction customization which in turn can provide very precise targets where an email niche are concerned.

Advanced Operators Table (Website Restrictive Operators)

Advanced Operators Example

Advanced Operators in General may seem a bit overwhelming at first. You may wish to experiment with various operators and test your results. However, once you understand their power then you’ll be able to see how useful and practical they can be. For example, let’s say we wanted to extract emails from users that were associated with the business related website Linkedin.com. Linkedin.com does not publicly display their email addresses. We could, however, search for pages throughout the web where people have referenced their association to Linkedin.com but don’t allow SEE to actually search Linkedin.com. Here is an example set of keywords using a couple of Advanced Operators that would do the trick:

Keywords:
intext:My linkedin -linkedin.com
Contact me intext:linkedin -linkedin.com
"Join me" intext:linkedin -linkedin.com
intitle:My linkedin -linkedin.com
Contact me intitle:linkedin -linkedin.com
"Join me" intitle:linkedin -linkedin.com

The above sample of keywords will extract emails from pages matching against the intext and intitle operators in addition to specifically disclosing the website Linkedin.com.

Take note that four different operators were applied to the above keywords (intext:, intitle:, -, "") – and is not by any means limited to these four but rather your imagination.

The above example is an effective method of scraping emails from LinkedIn users that are referencing their email address from a website other than their actual LinkedIn Profile page. As you can see the Advanced Operators can be spun in an infinite number of ways so that users can carefully craft and otherwise customize their extractions. Using the Advanced Operators may require you to think outside of the box (as we can see with the last example) but with time you’ll be able to spin operators for customized searches and more accurate results – or even completely new lists of emails targeting the same niche.

How to set these extractions up initially will take some careful planning and intelligence, however, the results will be excellent. Because of the diverse nature of operators and how they work with SEE new ways of extracting are constantly being discovered.