How come people are missing out on a valuable backlink from Google Knol, that too for free? Here is a link to SEO-Basics from the founder of SEOBook. http://knol.google.com/k/aaron-wall/seo-basics/38v8wakla8f98/2# So theoretically you could write articles and submit to Knol (make it look like a knowledge sharing wiki) and get quality backlinks!
Knol is NOFOLLOW - I still get them but more for traffic and to get indexed. I think Knol is going to get BIG and Google is taking Squidoo on in some ways.
Knol never really took off, and Google does not favor knols, infact wikipedia performs much better. Also as others have said links are nofollow.
As discussed in the thread here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1449311 All my Knols show as DOfollow both in Firefox checker and when i check the page code, check the thread above, there are a number of other great article sites that allow DO follow links right in the content, including meknows.com and squidoo.com
The comment links are nofollow, but the links inside the content are dofollow in Knol. You can verify that by going to the above link, and select view source and search for 'SEO Conferences' link and see that it is indeed dofollow.
Good point! It seems like google is very mysterious about which indexed links they actually display. If you have a Google API and you use backlink checkers through the API it shows a lot of links that you don't get to see with a normal search. For all we know Google might even count nofollow links
I think that Google is dishonest towards the webmaster world. I wrote some acceptable articles in Google Knol without too much commercialization: About SEO web hosting: http://knol.google.com/k/dick-detering/what-is-seo-web-hosting/15dfgu998tc7i/2# and about SEO tools: http://knol.google.com/k/dick-detering/search-engine-optimization-tools/15dfgu998tc7i/7# Even after 2 weeks not indexed in Google! When I write for reputable press release sites, the pages with my news articles are indexed in 60 minutes! (search term = my web address). What is Google Knol hiding for us?
Well guys, heres what i learnt from someone who is working on knol project. Google is intially keeping your links NOFOLLOW, in order to analyse your contributions in terms of articles. If you articles are really good, effective and have good quality, and they are in large numbers, then automatically google push you into good books turns on your links to DOFOLLOW. That is why some here say they have do follow links from knol. hope this helps.
My links are do follow now. They were no follow for a bit I think. If I remember correctly my links go to sources, not my site though. hope that helps, Nigel
I just placed several links to my articles on domain name search, url http://knol.google.com/k/dick-detering/what-is-seo-web-hosting/15dfgu998tc7i/2?hd=ns# and website hosting, url http://knol.google.com/k/dick-detering/search-engine-optimization-tools/15dfgu998tc7i/7# in Google Knol. Let's wait and see if the articles will get indexed by Google. Keep you informed!
knol gets indexed within seconds unless content is duplicate. Moreover in few cases duplicate content also is indexed with knol even though its already there on high authority sites like ezine or squidoo etc. One more thing is, u can not check knol page like, site:knollink, it returns no result...you have to directly search with content string to check whether its indexed or not.