We have not stopped blogging here at Convention Insider, and we haven’t broken our spell check features, we have been busy making adjustments to the Conventions.net site and making plans on how we can be the most used convention resource guide in the trade show and convention world. 

Part of the changes we have made, is the use of a new search feature here on Convention Insider.  Over on the right side of the page here, you will see a search widget, or as the folks at Lijit like to call it, “a search wijit.”  There goes the spelling alarm in my head.  This feature allows you to search not only the content here on Convention Insider, but it let’s you search the entire Conventions.net site, our network of linked friends, or the entire web, you get to choose.  Your search results will be show you directly to the information you are looking for.  If you wanted to find out about moving people for your convention and search for the folks at The Convention Store, you not only get the Friday Feature article written here, but it also send you right over to their spot on Conventions.net .  Feel free to poke around here and use the search feature and we’ll keep providing you with the results.

All of the conferences, trade shows and meetings out there now have associated websites of their events.  Some of them have blogs and if not they have many pages related to speakers, sponsor pages, exhibitor pages, information related to travel and other information contained on a page.  if you intend to be a sponsor, exhibitor, or speaker, make sure you get your information in to the event planner early.  This is an important tip for the purposes of link love.  You get some great benefits on the back end of the sites for purposes of incoming links to your own business site.  The longer you wait to get your link on their site, the less you will benefit.  If the event planners have a blog associated with the event, make sure to comment on the site if they have enabled comments.  It only helps your business in the long run when the search engines spider over the event site.  Finally, if you are a sponsor or exhibitor or speaker, make sure the event planner has correctly added your links to each page.  Many companies pay big money for links on websites, since you are already putting this money into their pocket, make sure those links are correct and up early.