If you ever wondered about tips on writing a great knol, I stumble upon one good knol on it.
Andy Henry wrote a how-to guide on writing a great knol that might appeal a beginner knol writer.
Early in his knol, Andy wrote an interesting remark:
Introductory message for newbies to knols – Do NOT listen to any hype and sensationalising from people hallucinating benefits of using knols. Knols are a Google resource of content contributed by members much like a next generation version of Wikis, Squidoo Lenses and article repositories. There is NO evidence to suggest that Google will bump knols to the top of the search engine positions, or that they will get any sort of preferential treatment – anyone telling you otherwise is feeding you stories. Don’t jump in and make bad knols because someone told you that it was a bandwagon to ride or that you’re gonna miss ‘the next big thing’ by not throwing up every piece of content you have.
That is very much true, as I have visited some knols on Google Knol that are blatantly created for the search engine optimisation and Internet marketing purposes.
Fortunately, the knols won’t stay on Google Knol for long – As Andy confirmed in his knol, Google Knol Team and members do the quality control.
However, as I witnessed in knols, users and members alike don’t really do quality control in term of the knol’s purpose. I’ve seen knols with scraped contents from other websites that get good star rating by users – the knols are obviously don’t deserve a five star for excellent, but copied content.
The Google Knol Team has introduced some sort of a system that allows user to flag inappropriate content, but that’s up to the users’ opinion and knowledge about what is ethical and what is not in knol writing.
Hopefully this will change in the near future, or as I’m afraid what will the Google Knol become – the spam haven.
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