DISQUS

charlieanzman · 1 year ago

Technically, there is no SEO play. Wikipedia started using nofollow a while back, and according to Danny Sullivan (Search Engine Land), Google is saying that no SEO weight will be given to Knol (which also uses the no follow on links)

felix · 1 year ago

Charlie, true - what I meant by SEO play is not the value of the outlinks but the value of the inlinks.. Wikipedia gets crazy SEO because everyone links into it. Google hates this because Wikipedia doesn't have ads, so it needs content that will do well in the SERPs so people find stuff other than Wikipedia. Inbound links will send traffic directly and indirectly to Knol. I just don't think it'll get that kind of inbound linking it needs to come close to Wikipedia. I guess time's going to tell!

Outlinks that there is still some sort of google juice that gets spread even with nofollow links. I've been monitoring my blog in the SERPs for "felix". I have almost no links with that as the text but I'm often on the second page, I think do to various comments I leave (all nofollowed) on blogs that link here. Not proven, but I started looking when I read that some SEO folks were beginning to believe that.

Demerzel · 1 year ago

Good point on really not having moderation of content unlike other wikis. I've noted more good/bad stuff as well about whether to SEO for Knol.