The Google Knol I created just yesterday entitled ‘How to Read the Russian Alphabet in 75 Minutes‘ is already appearing on Page 1 of a Google Search for “read russian” with 12,300,000 results following.
The curious fact that you can’t find the same content in a search within Google Knol is obviously a beta-release issue, but that’s still a pretty impressive result for content that I created and put online only yesterday. DISCLOSURE: Google say they’ll pay me from any Adsense revenue the page generates!
Well, we’ll see how it develops, but it looks like a fairly effective way to share your knowledge, get good search positions, and also perhaps make some money. Until someone pinches your content…
Don’t forget that the knol is a Google product.They probably know how to improve SEO for themselves service ;)
Very nice, I’m so impressed by Google, I have problem to find a word to describe the Google innovations on the web.
Could you set up a Knol “Web2.0 for dummies” and just fill it with links to thenextweb.org and see it that works too? Spam is an obvious issue so it would be a nice test…
Why is everybody comparing this to wikipedia, it feels like it’s About.com or Mahalo in flavor. If anything it’s more of a threat to all of the editors at about.com and they should be porting their content over as fast as possible!
Good point David – I made a very similar point on my Digital Biographer blog in December 2007 about Knol being UNLIKE Wikipedia.
See http://digitalbiographer.com/2007/12/15/knol-is-on-a-roll-googles-new-economy-for-online-authors/
Boris, I’ll see what I can do for Monday as regards a Web 2.0 entry, but I think that particular title is trademarked. ;-)
The issue with spam is that your Knol content is linked to an identity within Knol, so if you break the rules, it’s pretty easy to disappear your content.
Good point David, it doesn’t look like encyclopedia to me at all, at least not yet…
David, it is known that Google prefers fresh content.
A while ago, I set up a blog and noticed that one my first posts was the nr 1 result on Google for the search term “een verslag” (Dutch for “a report”). I was pretty happy, but saw the result slip off of the first page in a couple of days.
It would be interesting if your result would still one the first page in a couple of weeks :)
KNOL UPDATE: 1 week later, and that search puts my page in Position #7. Intersting to see that at position #8, I find my upload page on Skitch which is referenced and hold the full-size image above.
Interesting David!
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It clearly feels like wikipedia!
I dont think Google will rank Knols better than other websites, but the strength of the Google.com Domain will bring the power to rank those articles high in the search results.
But i think knols site structure and html is well designed and we could learn alot from it if we want to improve our own websites.
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Actuall there is not the results following like you said there is a poxy 230,000 and i could get on page 1 of google within 8 hours with such a small result. The key is your title and its as simple as that.what a joker…
being on google page 1 is a thing of enriching your site with good content as they say ''content is king''
I agree, content is king, but SEO is SEO.