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	<title>The BitWorm Search Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search</link>
	<description>Thoughts from a search geek</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SEO for an existing site – It&#8217;s like baseball</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2008/seo-is-like-baseball/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Performing SEO for an already live site is much different from integrating SEO during a ground up site build.
Analogies are a simple tool that we can use to explain technical SEO concepts to our clients.  Here are a few that I&#8217;ve found myself using recently with a baseball analogy that have been well received and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mine your Keywords Report - Take Immediate Action</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2008/long-tail-keywords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web Analytics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Web Analytics tools are nice to show you how many people are visiting your site, but their value can go well beyond that. Here is one simple way you can use your web analytics package to gain information you can immediately use to improve your site and generate more traffic.]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Key Factors for Ranking Well in Search</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2008/the-two-key-factors-for-ranking-well-in-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2008/the-two-key-factors-for-ranking-well-in-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peterdaly</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PageRank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bitworm.com/search/2008/the-two-key-factors-for-ranking-well-in-search/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been said that Google takes over 100 different considerations into account when figuring out where to return your page in a search result.  Even though that sounds like a lot, all those 100+ factors can be boiled down into two core concepts.  To rank well, you need to maximize both.
Ranking = Strength [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut-off Your Head; Grow a Longer Tail</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/cut-off-your-short-head-to-grow-a-longer-tail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/cut-off-your-short-head-to-grow-a-longer-tail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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A couple months back, I decided to take a calculated risk with my most popular page;  I cut off my head.  It&#8217;s worked out for the better, and is an interesting case study.   Let me explain&#8230;
A page on one of my sites was ranking a very solid #1 for a single [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to SOLR &#8220;Enterprise Search&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/introduction-to-solr-enterprise-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/introduction-to-solr-enterprise-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lucene]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/introduction-to-solr-enterprise-search/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SOLR bills itself as an open source enterprise search engine.  I would not go as far as to call it "enterprise," but certainly believe SOLR is a nice value added wrapper around the already powerful Lucene package.]]></description>
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		<title>High Performance Lucene Indexing</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/high-performance-lucene-indexing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/high-performance-lucene-indexing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lucene]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/high-performance-lucene-indexing/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In some instances, indexing into RAM rather than direct to disk can create a large indexing performance increase. Here's one way to do it.]]></description>
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		<title>Multi-Field Lucene Example</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/multi-field-lucene-example/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/multi-field-lucene-example/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lucene]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[java search]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/multi-field-lucene-example/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Storing and search more than one field is very easy to do in Lucene -- This can make your lucene search engine much more powerful!]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Lucene Example</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/simple-lucene-example/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/simple-lucene-example/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Lucene]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/simple-lucene-example/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lucene is a great core for a Java search engine. Here is simple Lucene example code to index simple single field data along with a very basic search function. This will create simple Java search engine. For this simple lucene example code, each block is catching the thrown exceptions so you can see what is thrown. In a real world lucene implementation, you may handle this differently.]]></description>
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		<title>On-Page SEO is not about Optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/on-page-seo-is-not-about-optimization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/on-page-seo-is-not-about-optimization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/on-page-seo-is-not-about-optimization/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When performing on site optimization, it&#8217;s important to keep your eye on the ball.
Here&#8217;s a hint; SEO is not really about code and content optimization. 
Seriously, many of us can&#8217;t see the forest through the trees.  Stop looking at the trees, and start enjoying the beauty of the forest.
What do I mean by that? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSN Comes Clean on Fake Search Traffic</title>
		<link>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/msn-comes-clean-on-fake-search-traffic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/msn-comes-clean-on-fake-search-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bitworm.com/search/2007/msn-comes-clean-on-fake-search-traffic/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has finally officially commented on the fake traffic they&#8217;ve been sending to websites recently.
Recently I commented about how Microsoft Live Search has been stuffing our log files with bot traffic pretending to be human.
Basically they say, &#8220;we&#8217;ve been doing bad stuff for the last EIGHT months that screws up your metrics and disregards internet [...]]]></description>
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