Torrance, CA, June 30, 2010: BQE Software Inc., the leading provider of business management software, announced today the release of ArchiOffice2010. Available immediately, this software is the next generation, utilizing leading edge technologies to deliver over 150 new and enhanced features designed to help architects and engineers better manage their businesses.

Among the new features are customizable dashboards, put-it-anywhere document management, intelligent folder synching, and enhanced integration with Microsoft Outlook, Entourage, Apple Mail, Address Book and iCal. ArchiOffice 2010 also added the ability for users to customize reports and invoices and drill-down into projects and costs for precise budgeting and invoicing.

This is by far the best upgrade, said Steven Burns, FAIA, Director of Product Strategy and Innovations at BQE Software. Weve clearly been listening to our customers and that resulted in robust capabilities like zero-deployment across multiple operating systems. Customers can now access ArchiOffice anywhere, anytime and at a significantly lower cost of ownership.

Other prominent enhancements include 128-bit SSL encryption and the option for a business to use its own SSL certificate. ArchiOffice utilizes Java Web Start technology to deliver robust capabilities with a small memory footprint. This new technology in ArchiOffice eliminates manual software installation, replacing this costly job with single-click deployment over any network.

ArchiOffice embodies BQEs designed for my business strategy. said Shafat Qazi, CEO and Founder of BQE. The future depends on us listening to our customers, utilizing in-house architectural, engineering and other professional experience, and delivering innovative, smart technology that simplifies our software. With the new release, our customers will spend less time on managing and more on growing their business. When our customers are successful, we are successful.
About BQE Software: BQE Software’s time tracking, billing and project management solutions create competitive advantage for professional service providers such as Architects, Engineers, Business Consultants and IT Consultants. BQE’s flagship products, ArchiOffice, EngineerOffice and BillQuick, combines precision time tracking and intelligent invoicing with powerful project management and reporting tools –together delivering a complete solution that is priced to deliver quick return on investment.

For more information: Angelo Lillo, Marketing Director, BQE Software Inc., angelo@bqe.com, 310-602-4010 Videos, Screen Shots and Company Logos at www.bqe.com

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From all the forms of traffic to a website, the traffic driven by the search engine has been the most profitable, along the time. This is why, since the middle of the nineties, many tried to analyze the way they work and to adapt their websites, for a higher and higher rank, in search engines. Search engine optimization became, thus, a profitable business, itself.

For many, though, getting traffic by no means led to less orthodox practices, known today as Black Hat SEO practices. These tactics involve abusing the search engines and driving traffic to them, even from irrelevant searches. To defend themselves from these tactics, the search engines evolved and their demands are continuously, changing. Google and Yahoo do not even disclose, any more, most of their algorithm calculations and other criteria they require for delivering targeted, quality traffic, to a website.

Anyway, the times of reciprocal links, three-way links, article spinning, link farming and whatever means automation is over. The serious directories check all the submissions, by hand. Recently, many had their pages un-indexed just for using huge data feeds, to post massive content to their blogs or web-stores.

Today the search engine submission services are obsolete. Each search engine will offer different tools to include websites, for indexing but they do not guarantee a better rank from using them. Google offers the Webmaster Tools and asks for a sitemap to be included in the root of a website, in order to access its content and crawl it, periodically. The webmasters also have the option to exclude certain content, like the password protected one, from being indexed and revealed, to the public. The sitemap will not be able to do its job, unless proper linking or cross-linking between the pages of the same website is done.

The keywords probably, will always be the most important factor for rank improvement in SEO. This is why, without falling into the obsession to please the search engines and to compromise the content, one has to check out the trends in searching. Not only the search engines offer this information but also big online stores, like Amazon. Keyword stuffing and hidden content, typical Black Hat SEO tactics, should be avoided, of course. Though, using frequently searched keywords along with one’s legitimate content, in a natural and well balanced manner, is one thing to keep in mind.

These days, the content syndication and spreading the word on major networking sites helps a lot when it comes to getting quality driven content from search engine. Search engine marketing is becoming, more and more a matter of honesty and accurate information. As in real life, one cannot rely only on one method of advertising and search engine marketing should not be the only one to take into consideration, for any website owner. Placing ads on websites with high traffic, permanent visibility and continuously, providing quality content on your own are pretty much the only things that make the search engines tick and work in one’s favor, these days.

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Newspapers are in trouble and paywalls have (so far) been a flop.Whilesome people say this heralds the end of real journalism, maybe newspaper websites just need a rethink. Perhaps they could really learn something from blogs.

Figures leaked to Beehive City this weekend point to a slow start for Rupert Murdochs Times paywall in the UK. Meanwhile, another story at the Guardian talks about how rival newspaper the Daily Mails website is well on its way to turning a profit without a paywall in sight. Its also the most viewed newspaper site in the UK. How does it achieve this? Id say its by being more like a blog than an actual newspaper.

Lets take a look at the MailOnline front page today and see what theyre doing to think web:

1. Different headlines from the paper version. MailOnline opts for the kinds of stories that might not be the biggest of the day, but that will get people talking and sharing. In this case, a story with shock value.

2. Celebrities. MailOnline is heavy on celebrities fluff stories because theyre a big draw. While they wouldnt work so well in the paper version, online you can pump out these types of posts quickly and generate lots of traffic with relatively little effort.

3. Lots of images. Many newspaper websites try to recreate the look of an actual newspaper. MailOnline forgoes that with images strewn all over the place, giving it more of a magazine feel.

4. Talking points work well online. Man ordered to pay 1,500 after being found guilty of drowning a squirrel is the kind of story you might see on a Gawker Media blog. It may be a serious story about animal cruelty but as we said in point 1, its a talking point story. It may only warrant a small mention in a print newspaper but it gets frontpage treatment here because MailOnline knows that web users have very different priorities.

5. Different editorial staff. Most newspapers staff work across print and web. Not at the Mail, here its two separate teams. This isimportantbecause web writing is very different to writing for print. Web articles generally work better when short and concise while print articles can spend longer telling a story.

Many successful blogs follow the guidelines above, albeit tweaked as necessary. Technology bloggers know that Twitter and Facebook are their celebrities that drive lots of traffic, which is why youll see lots of mentions of those companies on tech blogs; just as celebrity blogs will mention people like Justin Beiber a lot he drives traffic.

Can newspapers be more like blogs without losing their quality?

The Daily Mail is a tabloid and doesnt have to worry too much about losing a quality journalism reputation by changing its output for the web. How about those newspapers often seen as high quality news outlets? In those cases, they could probably drive more traffic, get more advertising and avoid the threat of a paywall by simply tweaking their output for the web.

Not every newspaper can overload its site with celebrity gossip and shock stories as the Mail does. However, they could likely boost their traffic by thinking web a little more. For example, they could:

• Include more internal links. This common tactic by blogs links within the text of a story back to relevant news from the past, thus driving more pageviews.

• Use Retweetable headlines. As weve noted before, Twitter is hugely important for blogs. By carefully crafting headlines that beg to be retweeted youre increasing the chance of a hit story.

• Write short, concise stories. Not everyone has time to read a 2500 word interview. It could be summarised in a 500 word blog post style piece, highlighting the key, newsworthy points perhaps with a link to the full thing for people suitably interested.

• Know their celebrities. As I noted above, the celebrities of tech blogs are currently Twitter and Facebook; stories about them drive traffic. Newspapers need to know their celebrities.

Boosting traffic without losing site of what makes a newspaper unique is a difficult balancing act, but I cant help thinking some newspapers could prosper by thinking web before they think paywall.

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I’m working on a more in-depth article with Zend that will cover grouping/sorting/etc on both the client and server side. It will provide some info on how to structure your data and make it more flexible for manipulating when it’s in the chart.

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