SEO Changes Prediction For 2011

The industry of SEO changed massively in 2010; (see our Review of 2010 in Search). We have seen the introduction / growth of Google Places, Google Instant, and Google Preview etc. Many of these changes have been keeping webmasters busy updating their websites so they don’t lose customers or business as a result of all these changes.
One thing I wouldn’t like to bet against is Google Places / Local business listings becoming a lot more competitive and dominant. Google seem to have focussed on this strongly through the second half of 2010. The SERP has in my opinion become a lot more relevant, it gives you chance to find good information, whether it be a news feed, a blog post, local business listing or a natural organic result.

The last big PageRank update was in April 2010. This is one of the longest periods (as far as I can remember) that it has not been updated in. This gives me the impression that Google could be changing or may have changed its ranking algorithm to place a lower importance on the number of inbound links your site requires for ranking in Google Places. I would say that your location and content / service you provide are much more important than link building. Google have now even introduced reviews for local businesses, not only does it allow you to review it using Google, it also picks up reviews from big review websites (see below).. who knows, having 100 positive reviews could be better than 100 back links.

A Google search for “plumbing Manchester” brought back this as the number one result. The website itself looks to have about 90 back links (Majestic SEO) and doesn’t even have a mention of “Manchester” in the title tag. The first organic result (http://www.empireplumbingandheating.co.uk/) has about 3500 back links (Majestic SEO) and has a mention of Plumbing and Manchester in the title tag. These changes could potentially confuse a lot more SEO’s during 2011.

Good Points! I have noticed a lot of these changes. Google places listings being integrated with organic was a big deal for regional/local campaigns.

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Web-Desktop Application for Network Monitoring and Alert Management.

Currently, computer networks are the backbone in the remote communication. Now they have become essential for the proper functioning of many domains and applications. Their rapid growth induces increased complexity of administration tasks and fault detection. Any problems or failure may have serious consequences forcing the use a system of monitoring and alert management.

The network monitoring has become therefore a major task not only the ensure the system retention and good functionality but also to have a global view on problems that may occur to prevent their appearance. As the task of the administrator is to ensure the smooth functioning of its network and manage heterogeneous devices, administrators were then forced in the past to work on a machine connected to the network which makes their task more difficult and may risk delaying critical tasks. Thanks to advances in technology and the evolution of the Web, this monitoring task has become more flexible.

In fact, the administrator is now able to monitor its network remotely via a web application that provides network monitoring and is capable of describing its condition and report alerts when this is necessary. Hence, it can remedy problems and resolve them as quickly as possible.

Indeed, this application starts with the automatic detection of network equipment (Routers, firewalls, terminal) which allows to draw the map showing equipment found to give the administrator a clear view on its network. The administrator can also predefine the annoying problems that which he judges to be important to be notified when they occur. Once one of these problems is encountered, an alert will reported to the administrator to inform him about the problem detected, its severity and its location so that he becomes able to correct it immediately.

The main objective of this project is to develop a web application for network monitoring and effective management of alerts. This application should be able to monitor services and network resources (routers, terminals). The following video is a demonstration of the project.

Introducing EXT JS

EXT JS is a javascript library which is build to offer web developers the ability to make interactive web applications using Ajax, DHTML and DOM scripting.

The new tendency in the last deacades in software development is the "rich Internet application". To be close to desktop application, you should have some advanced web

graphic tools and frameworks. Extjs has all the features to allow you to develop your rich Internet application.

The predefined tools such us grid, forms, panels and menus are rendered client-side.You don't have to wonder about compatibility. It's designed to work perfectly on any common browser.

Coding and editing Ext js scripts is fun. Since there are many examples with the downloaded package of the library and it has a very helpful community. These are some Screeshots of what this library is capable of:

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