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	<description>Daily ideas on Bum Marketing</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How to create a sitemap</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/11/how-to-create-a-sitemap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitemaps are used by search engines to help with the discovery of web pages.  The complexity of a sitemap can vary based on how it is built and the amount of trouble you want to go through to build it.  A sitemap can include data such as the frequency of updates, the last [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sitemaps are used by search engines to help with the discovery of web pages.  The complexity of a sitemap can vary based on how it is built and the amount of trouble you want to go through to build it.  A sitemap can include data such as the frequency of updates, the last time the page was updated, and the relative importance of a page.  All the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Ask, MSN) make use of sitemaps.</p>
<p>You can create a sitemap by hand or use of number of free sitemap generator tools.  Most of these tools limit by the total number of pages.</p>
<p>This <a title="create a sitemap" href="http://www.bumideas.com/sitemap-generator-tool/">sitemap generator tool will create a XML sitemap of your website</a> for you to upload to your webserver.  The XML sitemap it creates is rather basic, but we are not putting an arbitrary limit of pages on it.  Rather this tool limits by depth in the site.</p>
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		<title>SEO using MicroFormat</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/11/seo-using-microformat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[MicroFormat is a way of using standard HTML tags to encode additional information into the page.  This could be Geo data, calendar data, etc&#8230;
Example
In this example, the contact information is presented as follows:
&#60;div&#62;
&#60;div&#62;Joe Doe&#60;/div&#62;
&#60;div&#62;The Example Company&#60;/div&#62;
&#60;div&#62;604-555-1234&#60;/div&#62;
&#60;a href=&#8221;http://example.com/&#8221;&#62;http://example.com/&#60;/a&#62;
&#60;/div&#62;
With hCard microformat markup, that becomes:
&#60;div class=&#8221;vcard&#8221;&#62;
&#60;div class=&#8221;fn&#8221;&#62;Joe Doe&#60;/div&#62;
&#60;div class=&#8221;org&#8221;&#62;The Example Company&#60;/div&#62;
&#60;div class=&#8221;tel&#8221;&#62;604-555-1234&#60;/div&#62;
&#60;a class=&#8221;url&#8221; href=&#8221;http://example.com/&#8221;&#62;http://example.com/&#60;/a&#62;
&#60;/div&#62;
These specs are evolving [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MicroFormat is a way of using standard HTML tags to encode additional information into the page.  This could be Geo data, calendar data, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>Example</p>
<p>In this example, the contact information is presented as follows:</p>
<p>&lt;div&gt;<br />
&lt;div&gt;Joe Doe&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;div&gt;The Example Company&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;div&gt;604-555-1234&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;a href=&#8221;http://example.com/&#8221;&gt;http://example.com/&lt;/a&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/div&gt;<br />
With hCard microformat markup, that becomes:</p>
<p>&lt;div class=&#8221;vcard&#8221;&gt;<br />
&lt;div class=&#8221;fn&#8221;&gt;Joe Doe&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;div class=&#8221;org&#8221;&gt;The Example Company&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;div class=&#8221;tel&#8221;&gt;604-555-1234&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;a class=&#8221;url&#8221; href=&#8221;http://example.com/&#8221;&gt;http://example.com/&lt;/a&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/div&gt;<br />
These specs are evolving all the time, google around to find the latest.</p>
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		<title>Does the code to text ratio matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/10/does-the-code-to-text-ratio-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/10/does-the-code-to-text-ratio-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does the amount of code in your web page matter?  Well some debate it, but let face it, if content is king, then shouldn&#8217;t it be a large portion of the page?
If you only have one sentence of text on a page, well obviously you are going to have a very low Code to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Does the amount of code in your web page matter?  Well some debate it, but let face it, if content is king, then shouldn&#8217;t it be a large portion of the page?</p>
<p>If you only have one sentence of text on a page, well obviously you are going to have a very low Code to Text Ratio, but if not, you should be running around 50% text or better.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bumideas.com/code-to-text-ratio-results.php">Here is tool to check your code to text ratio</a></p>
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		<title>How to find how many pages are indexed in google</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/09/how-to-find-how-many-pages-are-indexed-in-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/09/how-to-find-how-many-pages-are-indexed-in-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like a simple thing.  Everyone knows the good old &#8220;site:&#8221; command for google.  For example
site:www.attheboard.com
shows &#8220;about 29,900 pages&#8221;
Well, that my be &#8220;about&#8221; due to status in indexing and possible duplicate content being weeded out.
but there is more&#8230;
try putting the site command with some minus random jiber&#8230; such as site:www.attheboard.com -lkskjdfkjd
shows &#8220;about 31,300 pages&#8221;
WHY????  no [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sounds like a simple thing.  Everyone knows the good old &#8220;site:&#8221; command for google.  For example</p>
<p>site:www.attheboard.com</p>
<p>shows &#8220;<strong>about</strong> <strong>29,900 pages&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Well, that my be &#8220;about&#8221; due to status in indexing and possible duplicate content being weeded out.</p>
<p>but there is more&#8230;</p>
<p>try putting the site command with some minus random jiber&#8230; such as site:www.attheboard.com -lkskjdfkjd</p>
<p>shows &#8220;<strong>about</strong> <strong>31,300 pages&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>WHY????  no idea&#8230;  Maybe more complex queries touch other servers or part of the google data center that give different results.  Try it with different lengths of jiber.  The results will vary.</p>
<p>Try adding and removing the www in front and the results will also vary.  Remember, if you track this on an ongoing basis, to use the same method for generating the counts.  You still might get variance day to day, but that is the luck of the draw with the datacenters.</p>
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		<title>Where to submit Bum Marketing articles (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/where-to-submit-bum-marketing-articles-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/where-to-submit-bum-marketing-articles-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Info]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those that like to submit Bum Marketing articles by hand, I got another list for ya.  Doing it by hand enables you to &#8220;SPIN&#8221; the articles to reduce the chance of a search engine Duplicate penalty could have.
from http://www.wilsonweb.com/linkin/wilson-article-marketing-1.htm




EzineArticles.com


GoArticles.com


ArticleDashboard.com


SearchWarp.com


ArticlesBase.com


iSnare.com *


SelfGrowth.com


Buzzle.com


ArticleCity.com


IdeaMarketers.com


ArticleAlley.com


Web-Source.net


SelfSEO.com


Amazines.com


ArticleTrader.com


SearchGuild.com


WebWorldIndex.com


ArticleSphere.com


BusinessKnowHow.com


PromotionWorld.com


ArticlesFactory.com


ExcellentGuide.com/article


ContentDesk.com


ArticleCube.com


AfroArticles.com


ArticleBiz.com






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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those that like to submit Bum Marketing articles by hand, I got another list for ya.  Doing it by hand enables you to &#8220;SPIN&#8221; the articles to reduce the chance of a search engine Duplicate penalty could have.</p>
<p>from http://www.wilsonweb.com/linkin/wilson-article-marketing-1.htm</p>
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<td width="86" height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.ezinearticles.com/">EzineArticles.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.goarticles.com/">GoArticles.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.articledashboard.com/">ArticleDashboard.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://searchwarp.com/">SearchWarp.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/">ArticlesBase.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.isnare.com/">iSnare.com</a> *</span></strong></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.selfgrowth.com/">SelfGrowth.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.buzzle.com/">Buzzle.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.articlecity.com/">ArticleCity.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.ideamarketers.com/">IdeaMarketers.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.articlealley.com/">ArticleAlley.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.web-source.net/">Web-Source.net</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.selfseo.com/">SelfSEO.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.amazines.com/">Amazines.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.articletrader.com/">ArticleTrader.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.searchguild.com/">SearchGuild.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.webworldindex.com/">WebWorldIndex.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.articlesphere.com/">ArticleSphere.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.businessknowhow.com/">BusinessKnowHow.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.promotionworld.com/">PromotionWorld.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.articlesfactory.com/">ArticlesFactory.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.excellentguide.com/article/">ExcellentGuide.com/article</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.contentdesk.com/">ContentDesk.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.articlecube.com/">ArticleCube.com</a></span></td>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.afroarticles.com/">AfroArticles.com</a></span></td>
</tr>
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<td height="17" align="right" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.articlebiz.com/">ArticleBiz.com</a></span></td>
</tr>
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<td height="17" align="left"></td>
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		<title>Where to submit bum marketing articles?</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/where-to-submit-bum-marketing-articles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/where-to-submit-bum-marketing-articles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Info]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[There are several answers to this question&#8230;
The first option to explore is a great service called isnare.  This company submits your article to a huge number of article directories.  It is a great tool for getting huge distribution of your material.
There is some debate about the impact of duplicate material&#8230;  It is thought that some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are several answers to this question&#8230;</p>
<p>The first option to explore is a great service called isnare.  This company submits your article to a huge number of article directories.  It is a great tool for getting huge distribution of your material.</p>
<p>There is some debate about the impact of duplicate material&#8230;  It is thought that some search engines will penalize sites for duplicate content.  Some people prefer the strategy of manual submissions to many individual sites instead of using a service.</p>
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		<title>First version of the tool is available now</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/first-version-of-the-tool-is-available-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/first-version-of-the-tool-is-available-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Tool]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Right here at http://www.bumideas.com/bum-ideas-search-tool/ is the first version of my phrase search tool.  This first version is focused on the start of phrases.  So if you were to type in &#8220;what is&#8221;  then the results is phrases from the database that start with &#8220;what is&#8221;.  The next version will be a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right here at <a href="http://www.bumideas.com/bum-ideas-search-tool/">http://www.bumideas.com/bum-ideas-search-tool/</a> is the first version of my phrase search tool.  This first version is focused on the start of phrases.  So if you were to type in &#8220;what is&#8221;  then the results is phrases from the database that start with &#8220;what is&#8221;.  The next version will be a bit more free form, but I need to do some analysis before opening that section up.</p>
<p>enjoy</p>
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		<title>Tools of the trade</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/tools-of-the-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/tools-of-the-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Info]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[There are several common tools for finding information on keywords to use in bum marketing.  To name a few there is Wordtracker, Google Adwords Keyword Tool and Niche Inspector.  One tool, Keyword Dig,  gets its search data from Wordtracker and shows you how much competition there is for each keyword in Google, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are several common tools for finding information on keywords to use in bum marketing.  To name a few there is Wordtracker, Google Adwords Keyword Tool and Niche Inspector.  One tool, Keyword Dig,  gets its search data from Wordtracker and shows you how much competition there is for each keyword in Google, Yahoo and MSN.</p>
<p>Of course there is a draw back to this, everyone is using the same tools.  Unique ideas require unique thoughts and tools.</p>
<p>In the next couple weeks, we will be launching our new tool.  A new way of looking at some real search data.</p>
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		<title>Self Centered on Bum Marketing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/self-centered-on-bum-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/08/self-centered-on-bum-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[phrases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People are self centered&#8230;.  well not really, but people tend to ask questions about themselves.
am i haveing a boy or a girl
am i having a boy or a girl
am i overweight
am i ovulating
am i pregnant
am i pregnant quiz
am i pregnant spotting during first month
am i pregnant with twins
am i pregnant with twins quiz
Take any [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People are self centered&#8230;.  well not really, but people tend to ask questions about themselves.</p>
<p>am i haveing a boy or a girl<br />
am i having a boy or a girl<br />
am i overweight<br />
am i ovulating<br />
am i pregnant<br />
am i pregnant quiz<br />
am i pregnant spotting during first month<br />
am i pregnant with twins<br />
am i pregnant with twins quiz</p>
<p>Take any phrase and change it up to the form of a question.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Why&#8221; marketing is childs play</title>
		<link>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/07/why-marketing-is-childs-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bumideas.com/2008/07/why-marketing-is-childs-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[phrases]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[WHY, WHY, WHY&#8230; a marketings dream, a parents nightmare.
Every marketer has to answer this question if they are going to make the sale.
Every parent has to answer a million WHYs from their child when they learn to talk.
why a unified healthcare plan for america
why alcoholics have affairs
why alcoholics walk away from the family they love
why [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WHY, WHY, WHY&#8230; a marketings dream, a parents nightmare.</p>
<p>Every marketer has to answer this question if they are going to make the sale.</p>
<p>Every parent has to answer a million WHYs from their child when they learn to talk.</p>
<p>why a unified healthcare plan for america<br />
why alcoholics have affairs<br />
why alcoholics walk away from the family they love<br />
why am i just dying to live when i&#8217;m living to die<br />
why am i lured by a married woman<br />
why am i mean to my mom<br />
why am i measuring 10 weeks if im only 8 weeks pregnant<br />
why am i measuring 3 weeks ahead at first prenatal appointment</p>
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