How Would You Like To Acquire A Free Do Follow Link From Google?
August 19, 2009
No, I have not been drinking any electric Kool-aid nor have I been smoking any wacky tobacco. I am actually reticent to let out this little secret for the Google Gods may realize their error and make adjustments to their site and correct this oversight. But if I don’t mention it someone else will. So here we go.
First off Google Knol stands for a measure of knowledge. It was developed to allow highly educated individuals to write about there areas of expertise. You simply register and begin to post. In many ways it is like the website Scribd.com. It seems to be a little bit of wiki and Blogger rolled into one.
Late last month (October 2008) Google quietly opened its Knol service to the general public. There hasn’t been a lot written about the subject lately. However, I was visiting another obscure blog when I saw a post about Knol. So I took the time to visit and to sign up and to start posting. That’s when I noticed something unusual.
The article that I had read noted that Google seemed to be giving a lot of authority to articles posted on Knol. It went on to state that Knol could be used effectively to acquire a first page listing in the Google SERP’s for niche keyword searches. Since Niche SEO markets are our bread and butter we figured that we should take a look around.
I surf the web and most of the time I do so using with SEOQuake enabled. It will indicate if a link is no follow or do follow. We noticed that links to the posters profile were no follow, but the permalink was a do follow link. This seemed odd to me so I dug a little deeper into Knol and started reading some of the posts.
Much to my amazement and shock I discovered that links embedded in these Knol’s were actually “Do Follow” links. Google has forced no follow links on blogs and most major sites that are social media in nature. It has made life very difficult for many websites to gain links that pass link juice that affects their algorithm and thus the search results. So the fact that they are not applying these principals to their own website seems a bit hypocritical to me. I am certain that many others will agree with me.
Now here is where this discovery begins to go south. I have 2 choices to make here. I could simply re-write my hundred or so posts and place them in Knol and snag a bunch of do follow links from Google and wait until someone else brings this to everyone’s attention. Then watch this benefit dissolve or I can bring it to your attention and see how long it takes for Google to re-act. Well, if you are reading this then I decided to share what I discovered.
Now, nine months later Google’s Knol is still do Follow and there has hardly been a whimper from the SEO community… Now, that is indeed odd!
Speaking of sharing…
We at Tucson SEO Solutions are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 20 words or more. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv.
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Are you ready to exchange comments for links?
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Comments
5 Responses to “How Would You Like To Acquire A Free Do Follow Link From Google?”
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the comment. You are correct. I just thought it was an interesting observation. Something like this occurred a while back with a paid service Google provides.
You had to pay something like 2,000 bucks and you got a do follow link until lots of people raised a fuss. It made it appear that Google was selling links. That got changed real quick.
I found it worthy of writing about. I thought it might bring in some extra traffic but it has been mostly ignored… Oh well.
Google hypocritical? Surely you jest? :D
Honestly I’m not at all surprised that Google plays by a completely different set of rules when it is involved. I’m a bit strapped for time at the moment, but the first chance I get I will be looking into knol.
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Admin: Sire, is the owner of the Wassup blog along with a few others. I just commented on his blog and he returned the favor almost immediately!
I appreciate the information. I had never been interested in writing anything for Google Knol, but now my interest is piqued.
I see that scheduled maintenance is being done on August 20th. Probably to turn knol into a nofollow site.
I just found your site btw, and subscribed to your feed.
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This seems a little to good to be true but never the less, im going to go and check it out. Thanks for sharing!
This is very interesting…so is this google knol site cost money or not? I am a little confused. Does anyone have any experience with this? I am hoping that its free as is everyone.