Find Magento shops with Google

Sometimes you want to get an overview of other Magento shops. For example if you want to check if you can offensively expand and add support to other bad maintained Magento shops. For this you can use Google – I show you how to find Magento shops with Google search queries.

Find Magento shops with Google

If you want to test other Magento shops for security leaks to offer them a bugfix or service contract, then you first need to get a list of all available Magento shops in you area. A good start is to actually find Magento shops by Google. Sadly, Magento has no significant meta keyword or block of HTML code in its frontend source you can search for. The only representative is your URL, because of Magento URL Rewrite. All Magento shops have by default a customer/account or a checkout/cart URL. So we can build our query based on this knowledge. Some sample queries may be:

The chance is very high, that every found domain leads to a magento installation. Sometimes you also need the first part of the URL like /shop.

Extract Domains

You can use Google API to automatically call queries and extract all found domains. Later you can use tools like magereport to find out if that shop has open security problems (missing patches). You can also check frontend of that shop if it is for example responsive or has some display problems. With that info you may add your business card to the shop owner and ask for help. It is interesting how much web agencies or self employed developer are very lazy in maintaining a running shop. It is interesting how easy it is to get new work by just asking for help.

Conclusion

Google is your friend if you want to find Magento shops with a search engine. There is no 100% solution, but with my information you may find a lot of other shops that may need you help.