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		<title>A Search Engine Experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that my web site development site got a visit by someone who found it in a search for &#8220;hank hill quotations.&#8221; I haven&#8217;t put any effort at all into optimizing the site for that search term, so naturally I got curious and had to check it out. It turns out my site is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I noticed that my <a href="http://www.tropicalwebworks.com/">web site development</a> site got a visit by someone who found it in a search for &#8220;<a href="http://www.hankhillquotes.com/quotes/Hank-Hill/">hank hill quotations</a>.&#8221; I haven&#8217;t put any effort at all into optimizing the site for that search term, so naturally I got curious and had to check it out. It turns out my site is #66 in Google and #32 in Yahoo for that search.</p>
<p><span id="more-36"></span>I have only the most minor, off-hand reference in the site. There&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.hankhillquotes.com/quotes/Hank-Hill/">quotation from Hank Hill</a> in my quotation database, which is a simple example that I put on my database programming page to give a little demo of what can be done with databases, for clients who aren&#8217;t familiar with their use.</p>
<p>So I thought to myself, &#8220;Self, if you can rank at #66 and #32 respectively in Google and Yahoo for that search term without even trying, could you do better if you actually tried?&#8221; And so I logged into my GoDaddy account and registered hankhillquotes.com. Then I set up a simple site with a basic database, which I populated with a few quotes from each of the major characters.</p>
<p>I plan on spending a few minutes a day adding quotations to the database, and over time expanding the site somewhat too &#8212; perhaps adding character bios, episode descriptions, things like that.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll post my progress here and let you know what shakes out. Hopefully, there won&#8217;t be some mean-spirited person who comes along and puts major effort into outranking me. This is just a small effort on my part to see what happens.</p>
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