Building Backlinks and Promoting Your Site with Google Knol
I hope by now you know just how important it is to create links back to your site, whether it’s a Squidoo lens or an authority site. These links back to your site are what will help you move up in the search engine rankings. With better rankings for your chosen keywords, comes an increase in web traffic.
Google Knol
Google knol is another place you can publish your content for free. This is one of the easiest places I’ve found to create content. You simply go to Google knol:
Sign in and then click “write a knol”. This will open a text editor for you to put your content into. Google knol is quite different than Squidoo in that you can just paste an entire article in there. There’s no place for all the extras that Squidoo provides, it’s simply information.
Google knol is great to use to repurpose your Ezine articles or blog posts if you have a blog. You can simply go to Google Knol, maybe rewrite your first paragraph and then paste it right in.
Since the point doing this is to create links back to your lenses you will need to go into the content and create some links within the content. This is pretty easy since there is a text editor. Just highlight the keywords you’re trying to get your lens to rank for, and then click the chain link icon in the tool bar. It will open a box where you can put in the url for your lens. When you click save it will create the link back to your lens.
Google knol is still relatively unused. It’s my thinking that whenever you can get a link from Google directly ~ you should do it.
Speaking of which, it was while doing a knol that I realized Google now gives you a profile space. You can fill it in with keyword anchor text links to your sites ~ I’d go ahead and fill in your info, upload a picture and then add some links to your best lenses ~ it can only help to get links from Google.
If you’re not taking advantage of Google Knol yet, what’s stopping you? Get on over and fill in your Google profile and create a couple knols. Who knows you might find it becomes your favorite place to create content on the web.
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Hi Jackie,
I have first time heard about Google Knol from your post. So I am thankful to you. I will give it a try to post some useful stuff on the internet.
Many of your posts are really helpful. Thanks again.
Hello Jackie, I am also a noob in website promotion and thank you for this great information. I really need to make backlinks but I don’t where to put it. Thanks again.
Knol is indeed a little underused; I think it is a great tool to link subsidiary and secondary sites that you want to use for sending one-way links to your main site… or link to the Knol post from a number of sources, give it a boost and send a one-way link from your Knol post to your main site or blog. I think this will help.
Are the links from google knol do follow or no follow, that is what really matters when thinking about page rank
Nas,
The links from comments are no follow ~ and as for the links within your knol it depends on the quality of your content and how long you have been building knols.
Here’s some info from Knol itself: http://knol.google.com/k/knol-help/follow-vs-nofollow-links-in-knol/si57lahl1w25/90#
Hope that helps ~ also remember all links count for Yahoo and other search engines. Not everyone uses no follow ~ just google.
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I appreciate the link to Knol’s self explanation on it’s outbound linking, it sounds alot like Hubpages way of doing things. However, I still need to do some testing to see just how much link value the dofollow links actually provide. For example, Google Profile pages have dofollow links and provide no value since they are on Google’s domain.
I am not saying that they don’t pass value, just wouldn’t be surprised if they passed less value. Either way, another great resource to get your content in the SERPs and site indexed.
Unfortunately Google already announced that Google knol will not carry over any weighted Google Juice.
However, it is a great way to get another very high authority page in the SERPs for your name, plus some nice entry points for the spider to start indexing your site.
thanks, this is unique idea for link building,
Thanks for posting.
Honestly, this is the first time I ever heard of Knol. I’m glad I got here. Knol been around for a while now, the date for your post is 8th June 09′. I have a lot thing with exploring now. Thanks for this precious information