Google’s knol

Competitor of Wikipedia !!!!!!!!

Google had started a new feature which is called knol.We think it stands for knowledge.It is for those people who can write some articles in a authoritative way.The idea behind it is simply encouraging the visitors to use it for getting information and also the more visibility of the google in the internet.The key idea behind the knol project is to highlight authors.

What is this

They want to make knol such a place where the person can find information about any topic such as geographical and historical, to entertainment, from product information, to how-to-fix-it instructions.

Who will edit

it will be authors responsibility.As the authors reputation will be on line for it.

Other things

strong community tools
Users can submit comments, questions, edits, additional content
Anyone will be able to rate a knol or write a review of it.
references and links to additional information.
knol may include ads.

For simple webmaster it can create problem because out of top 10 results.It can share 1 or two results.
Google says “Our job in Search Quality will be to rank the knols appropriately when they appear in Google search results”

Some other faqs

Things to do :

1. Be organized in your writing.
2. Be succinct, but comprehensive on your topic of choice.
3. Provide references, and display your credentials.
4. If you know of good resources on your topic, link to them from within your article to make it easy for your readers to learn more.
5. Insert relevant images to make your knol visually appealing to your readers.
6. State the obvious for readers, and define your subject well from the start.
7. Ask for reviews.
8. Review user comments regularly

   What you have to avoid

1. Don’t write a blog. Knols are meant to be standalone articles on a topic of your choosing. Knol is not optimized for diary-type writing.
2. Don’t write teaser articles. Knols should be comprehensive pieces of information on a topic. Readers are like you: they don’t like getting incomplete information.

From a webmasters point of view it is a good option for getting some good backlinks and also serving ads to people which will be quite relevant.Google will properly index this knol and it is sure that websites linking with it will get more visitors.

Our tech tags: Competitor of Wikipedia, knol