Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[searchnewz: Combined RSS Feed] Google Implements 'NoFollow' Tag in Knol!: But there are certain speculations that Knol being a Google service, might enjoy some leverage from the search giant and possibly receive a higher PageRank considering the fact that it is linked from all kinds of different, high-ranked Google properties. But Google assured that Knol would not be enjoying additional trust from Google and will be evaluated the same as every other webpage is.
[Pittsburgh SEO Blog] Tid Bits of SEO Knowledge on Knols: I find knols to have some potential for SEO but it looks like you’re really going to have to put some work into them to get a pay off. Becuase it’s a article written to provide knowledge on a particular subject it’s a little more involved than simply making a blog post.
[Science Library Pad] Knol - Google losing view of web?: I'm sorry Google, but that's not only not true, the entire Knol system and "introducing Knol" tone show a total lack of understanding of the current state of scholarly blogging, a total absence of support for scholarly citation and linking, and a surprising disregard for critical existing aspects of the web architecture.
[Sphinn: Comments] Comment on Knol Does Indeed Give Pages A Google Ranking Advantage: I personally haven't even looked at knol yet as I'm waiting for the hype to die down, but it sounds like from the other posts here that they're using nofollow in all the links? If so, then that should lessen the problems that might be .
[Write Great Google Knols] The Early Returns on Google Knol and Search Engine Optimization: All of this taken into account brings up the question: if Knols are treated like any other page by Google, why would there be a need for a blanket “nofollow” approach to the content, then? Google can’t be possibly suggesting a general nofollow is the appropriate way to publish content on all web pages out there (which are also all “user generated” content in some way), or can they?
[Lensroll Social Networking | Content Marketing] Google Knol Follow?: We use the same meta on the upcoming lenses page on the Squidoo social bookmarking portion of this site to battle against duplicate filter issues. Works like a charm to keep upcoming stories separate from the stories page itself.
[The Unofficial adsense Blog] AdSense and Google Knol: It might be of interest because of its content, which includes discussions of Wikipedia criticism, along with competitors, including Knol. Also, it’s the first duplicate knol I’ve seen - another article titled Wikipedia was published a few days ago (though it’s pretty much a copy-and-paste job).
[hubspot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog] Uh, Google, I think you might need an SEO consultant for Knol...: Therefore, if I were you, I might take some of the insignificant links on your homepage and add the nofollow attribute to them”¦ the Sign-In, Write a Knol, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, etc. links are all great examples of links where you could add the nofollow attribute so that you would save some of your authority for the more important links on the homepage.
[Dare Obasanjo aka carnage4life] Google's Assault on Wikipedia: Google is clearly favoring Knol content over content from older, more highly linked sites on the Web. I won't bother with the question of whether Google is doing this on purpose or whether this is some innocent mistake.
[the blogwalker] Google Knol, Another Way To Promote Your Blog: The nofollow tag here means that links you put in the Knol’s page will not count as a referrer to your site for the PageRank calculation. Again, it’s only affect the site’s Pagerank, not the your site itself.
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