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	<title>Abalastow Compendium</title>
	<link>http://www.abalastow-compendium.org</link>
	<description>a class project on Search Engine Optimization: help me out by creating an Abalastow Compendium link on your page</description>
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		<title>An early November update</title>
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Thank you!

For about the past month, your links have pushed me up to the number one Google search result.

But don't remove those links yet -- the competition is far from over. I'm sure my classmates will be upping their efforts in the final stretch, so I'll need your help now ...</description>
		<link>http://www.abalastow-compendium.org/2008/11/05/an-early-november-update/</link>
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		<title>How It Works</title>
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Wikipedia has a great article on how Google PageRank works. It seems that to get the top search result for the key words Abalastow Compendium I need to:

1. Get as many people to create links to this blog as possible. Over time, Google will notice all of these links and ...</description>
		<link>http://www.abalastow-compendium.org/2008/09/27/how-it-works/</link>
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		<title>What Abalastow Compendium Is</title>
		<description>Abalastow Compendium is an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) contest in an entrepreneurship course taught by Dan Grigsby. Here are Dan's notes on this assignment.

The point of the competition is to see who can get the first google search result for the key words Abalastow Compendium.

Help me out! Add a link ...</description>
		<link>http://www.abalastow-compendium.org/2008/09/24/what-abalastow-compendium-is/</link>
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		<title>Abalastow Compendium on Wikipedia</title>
		<description>It appears that the phrase Abalastow Compendium is making quite a splash. Already a Wikipedia page has beed created and taken down for it. 

Hard to imagine that just 2 days ago there were no google hits for this phrase. </description>
		<link>http://www.abalastow-compendium.org/2008/09/23/abalastow-compendium-on-wikipedia/</link>
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