Have you started using Google KNOL?

It's like Wikipedia, with a mix of Squidoo.

Here's the official page: http://knol.google.com/k/knol

 

never heard if it but will check it out now

 

for link development? I don't see any resource boxes.

 

You can add link resource via special code. The problem is that Knoll still has a PR0.

 

Maybe there is a PR0, but that won't be for long and I have seen several articles be in the top 10 for their keywords in Gooogle. The only problem is that it seems very selective on content.

 

Seems a good web portal even it is not a DO FOLLOW one.
Thanks for this link! I've bookmark it.

 

Yes, I submitted 14 "knols" today.

I used the html editor to implant my url and anchor text into the content.

I dont know whot the results will be, but google seems confident that the SE's indexing the knols will be quite heavy.

Wish me luck!

 

will give a try..thanks 4 sharing

 

Being that it is a Google product, I think it's fair to say that Knol will get a boost when it comes to the SERPs.

Start writing your pages now, while it is young and they'll probably really benefit.

 

it IS dofollow my friend

 

cool....i heard that KNOL will be defeat wiki someday

 

yes probably, but in not short terms. btw I hate the name KNOL

 

I've heard of it but haven't used it yet. Anyone seeing nice results?

 

I can see this site being a pr 8 or 9 in six months, lot of juice

 

Heard of Google Knol but have not yet tried using it. Aaron Wall has some comments regarding this new site of Google. Here's the link for your reference:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/knol-is-open-to-everyone.html
http://www.seobook.com/google-knol

 

Yes, this looks promising. You know it's AdSense revenue sharing too!? Except they give you ALL the revenue! See under Settings. You have to be approved first, for some reason.

Links are NOT "nofollow" last time I looked! I am not sure about putting self-serving links (affiliate etc.) in the actual content body but I have a feeling that they will be tolerant towards this practice, since they have to encourage people to write content somehow.

So I guess Knol is going to be, as many have pointed out, a kind of Squidoo, with Wiki elements, but more like an article database at the end of the day. But with all the Google juice gushing around there, a decent article posted on Knol might see good ranking and represent a good backlink.

I just wonder how they are going to stop it degenerating into a spam-fest... We will see...

P.S. I don't know about you, but I am going to be the first in with a quality article on my various keywords - get them while they're hot!

 

I think the page has a meta nofollow on it.

 

Ahhh, yes, in the robots meta tag - my bad. Boooo....!

Oh well, just have to pack my articles with affiliate links then!

 

So far I haven't seen any traffic though. Ah well.