No GoogleDance at SES San Jose 2009 – SearchBash Stepping Up

Google has said it will not to throw a Google Dance event at the upcoming 2009 Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose California. The decision was made in reaction to the recession during a year which saw Google make the first round of layoffs in its corporate history. Hosting a party estimated to cost $1.5million could be seen as sending the wrong message in a declining economy. Google, which is still among the largest sponsors of SES San Jose, is expected to use the four-day conference to heavily promote its YouTube video platform.

It is going to be a strange experience being at SES San Jose without making the annual pilgrimage to the Googleplex. Google Dances were always larger-than-life events. Held at their enormous headquarters in Mountain View, the Google Dance was seen as one of the MUST DO networking events, attracting thousands of people each year. It was also one of the few remaining non-exclusive events open to all SES attendees, speakers and booth staff. The experience was an annual bonding ritual for everyone involved with the conference held at the closest thing search-geeks have to a universal holy land. Well choreographed, meticulously planned and lovingly executed, the Google Dance was a cultural experience the community is going to miss.

WebmasterRadio.FM is stepping in to throw the premier party event of the conference. SearchBash SJ09 is going to be the largest WebmasterRadio.FM produced SearchBash event yet.

“We intend to beat the Nov08 SearchBash experience in Vegas”, says WebmasterRadio.FM co-founder Daron Babin. “The SearchBash party thrown in Vegas during the Pubcon Conference was a spectacle, even by our standards. Without Google throwing a party in San Jose, we know our party needs to be bigger this year.”

The SearchBash party at Search Engine Strategies San Jose will be larger and wilder than ever. With no Google Dance this year, WebmasterRadio.FM is providing the only non-exclusive party of the conference.

More information about this year’s SearchBash will soon be posted on the WebmasterRadio.FM site, SearchEngineWatch.com and in the SEW Forums.

How to make a Blogger Blog, A DoFollow Blog?

Have you ever wondered why your Blog has a lower PageRank and a few number of Backlinks? You may be working really hard to build backlinks, but.. the thing called ‘NoFollow’ is just killing them by keeping them out of the Search Engines Reach. There is no use of Backlinks if they are not noticed by Search Engine as you cannot expect to receive any traffic from them.

Firstly.. I am gonna tell you how to see whether a site or a blog is a DoFollow or not. Its really simple. Simply install the Plugin for Mozilla Firefox called SearchStatus. SearchStatus is a plugin which shows you the PageRank and the Alexa Rank of the website you are currently browsing. Apart from that, it is also helpful to find out whether the Site you are browsing is ‘NoFollow’ or ‘DoFollow’.

However.. Coming to the point, Making your Blog, A DoFollow Blog can attract a lot of visitors. The chances of getting the visitors visit your blog again and again are also high as they also take the Backlinks into consideration.

How to make a WordPress Blog, A DoFollow Blog?

There is a plugin for WordPress which eliminates ‘rel=nofollow’ attribute in Comments, which inturn makes the links in the comment as DoFollow links. This will result in these links being considored as Backlinks by the Search Engines. You can download the Plugin here –> WordPress Plugin To Make The Links in Comments as DoFollow. If you have any questions regarding this plugin, kindly visit its official website and contact the author.

How to make a Blogger Blog, A DoFollow Blog?

Sign in to Blogger, Go to your Blog’s layout and click EDIT HTML. Now.. Search for the below line :

a expr:href=’data:comment.authorUrl’ rel=”nofollow”>

Remove the attribute ‘rel=”nofollow”. So, the code will be :

a expr:href=’data:comment.authorUrl’>

This will make all the links in the comments on your Blogger’s Blog into A DoFollow Links.