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Digital Agency, and SEO Firm Native Rank, Inc. Secured by MediaBreakAway, LLC … – DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Jan 18th
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Digital Agency, and SEO Firm Native Rank, Inc. Secured by MediaBreakAway, LLC …
DigitalJournal.com (press release) Native Rank, Inc, a digital agency and SEO firm located in Denver, Co has been selected by fellow Colorado company, Media Breakaway LLC, for their new airline website showcasing value options for travelers The site will be located on Media Breakaway's … |
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Digital Agency, and SEO Firm Native Rank, Inc. Secured by MediaBreakAway, LLC … – PR Web (press release)
Jan 18th
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Digital Agency, and SEO Firm Native Rank, Inc. Secured by MediaBreakAway, LLC …
PR Web (press release) Native Rank, Inc, a digital agency and SEO firm located in Denver, Co has been selected by fellow Colorado company, MediaBreakAway LLC, for their new airline website showcasing value options for travelers The site will be located on MediaBreakAway's … |
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Rank for Anything You Want on Google Search Plus Your World
Jan 13th
After reading a number of complaints about the quality of results and how often Google+ pages were featured in the Top 3 positions in the new personalized search, I reached out to the SEW authors community and had a bit of fun testing out Search P…
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(SkyNewswire.com) Rank Ranger Launches Efficient, User-Friendly SEO Software … – SkyNewswire.com
Jan 11th
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(SkyNewswire.com) Rank Ranger Launches Efficient, User-Friendly SEO Software …
SkyNewswire.com RankRanger is excited to announce the official launch of our flagship RankRanger SEO software tool on 1 January 2011. As more and more online businesses realize that top search engine rankings bring in more money, many SEO professionals find themselves … |
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Improved Snippets, Rank Boost For “Official” Pages Among 10 New Google Algorithm Changes
Nov 14th
Google just posted about ten new algorithm changes it has made to how it shows and ranks search results. These include showing rich snippets more often, improving the quality of snippets, a better way of showing page titles for times when Google ignores the HTML title tag itself and a ranking boost…
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How to Rank Your Apps and Processes According to the Fire Alarm Scale
Nov 11th
There you stand, figuratively speaking, with a fistful of sticky labels all bearing the words “mission critical.” Now, what to affix them to? Which applications and processes are truly mission critical and which are not? Ha! That’s a trick question, right?! Yeah, actually it is.
“There are many stories where a failure in an unimportant system had monster impact on the business or where secondary systems took on significant roles in product management, service support or disaster recovery,” warns Brian Barnier, a principal at ValueBridge Advisors who also serves on standards and practices committees such as ISACA, ARMA and OCEG.
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And, he’s right. There are lots of actual disasters to learn the general lesson from, but there are still no steadfast rules to follow. So, we’re back to the fistful of sticky labels and the conundrum that represents. What to do, what to do?!
I humbly recommend what I call the fire alarm scale to rank apps and processes. It’s an adaptation of Michael Lee’s three category breakdown of app importance. Lee, by the way, is principal consultant at SWC, an IT firm that specializes in serving mid-sized businesses. Anyway, Lee categorizes apps as:
- Mission critical: those apps or processes that cost the company money any time they fail,
- Mission important: no harmful loss to the company if it fails in the short term, but harmful if it stays down in the long term, and
- Mission supported: will not stop the company’s mission but will impede operations if lost.
That’s a pretty good demarcation of apps and processes in general. However, I would remind you to also think about Barnier’s warning of how secondary systems and seemingly insignificant apps and processes can suddenly pack a monstrous punch to an unsuspecting organization. Hence, my fire alarm scale which simply means weighing each app or process by the size of the panic it causes if it is down.
You could scare the heck out of everyone and just start unplugging stuff to see who – and how many – scream. I don’t recommend that. It’s very noisy and generally makes the company operations a mess for the duration. Plus, plugging things back up always entails more work than unplugging them, so it isn’t a very efficient use of your time. It can be fun however if you are the sort that likes to remind people what it is that IT actually does. Ok, we’ve had our snicker let’s get back to the fire drill.
The easier way to determine whether a downed app potentially amounts to a one-two-three or even four alarm catastrophe is to use app performance monitoring (APM) applications to automatically discover where the apps are, who uses them, and what resources they consume. But don’t stop there. Find out what those apps are actually used for in order to discover their potential impact on mission critical processes. Trace it, track it, map it from source to end and back again; which is to say evaluate the importance of the data it contains, who is using that data and to what end.
“In an ideal world, all business processes within a company would directly or indirectly support revenue generation. But, in reality every process contributes differentially to this goal,” says Deepak Bharathan of PA Consulting Group, a global management and IT technology consulting firm.
That’s why you better know the terrain – every nook and cranny – and where the dangers really lie. Then and only then can you mark them clearly by the fire scale because then and only then do you really know what is and is not mission critical.
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New 5 Billion Page Web Index with Page Rank Now Available for Free from Common Crawl Foundation
Nov 7th
A freely accessible index of 5 billion web pages, their page rank, their link graphs and other metadata, hosted on Amazon EC2, was announced today by the Common Crawl Foundation. “It is crucial [in] our information-based society that Web crawl data be open and accessible to anyone who desires to utilize it,” writes Foundation director Lisa Green on the organization’s blog.
The Foundation is an organization dedicated to leveraging the falling costs of crawling and storage for the benefit of “individuals, academic groups, small start-ups, big companies, governments and nonprofits.” It’s lead by Gilad Elbaz, the forefather of Google AdSense and the CEO of data platform startup Factual. Joining Elbaz on the Foundation board is internet public domain champion Carl Malamud and semantic web serial entrepreneur Nova Spivack. Director Lisa Green came to the Foundation by way of Creative Commons.
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The Foundation explains the scope of the project thusly.
“Common Crawl is a Web Scale crawl, and as such, each version of our crawl contains billions of documents from the various sites that we are successfully able to crawl. This dataset can be tens of terabytes in size, making transfer of the crawl to interested third parties costly and impractical. In addition to this, performing data processing operations on a dataset this large requires parallel processing techniques, and a potentially large computer cluster.
“Luckily for us, Amazon’s EC2/S3 cloud computing infrastructure provides us with both a theoretically unlimited storage capacity coupled with localized access to an elastic compute cloud.”
The organization was formed three years ago, just now started talking about itself publicly and believes that free access to all this information could lead to “a new wave of innovation, education and research.”
Open Web Advocate James Walker agrees: “An openly accessible archive of the web – that’s not owned and controlled by Google – levels the playing field pretty significantly for research and innovation.”
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SEO Services For Better Search Rank To Grow Your Website Traffic Faster – AddPR.com (press release)
Nov 2nd
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SEO Services For Better Search Rank To Grow Your Website Traffic Faster
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SEO Tips for Getting Your Press Release to Rank Slated as Business Wire’s FREE … – EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
Nov 1st
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SEO Tips for Getting Your Press Release to Rank Slated as Business Wire's FREE …
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) Prior to joining Business Wire, Sanders worked as an SEO (search engine optimization) consultant and strategist for Dallas-based Builder Online Solutions. He has more than five years' experience in digital marketing and SEO. … |
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