July 27, 2008 at 8:00 pm · Filed under blogs, general, google, knol
The Google Knol I created on the 24th of July entitled ‘How to Read the Russian Alphabet in 75 Minutes‘ was already appearing on Page 1 of a Google Search for “read russian” with 12,300,000 results following, just a day later.
I have updated the title within Knol from the one showing in the Google index, but that’s still a pretty impressive result for content that I created and put online only the day before.
And Google say they’ll pay me from any adsense revenue the page generates. This is part of the reason why I was interested in Google Knol from December last year when it was first announced. We’ll see how it develops, but it looks like a fairly effective way to share your knowledge, get good search positions, and also perhaps make some money. Until someone pinches your content… (to be fair, Google allow content to have three copyright models - the two popular Creative Commons licence types, and one of ‘All rights reserved’.
You may be interested to joing a Ning-powered discussion group that I created when first hearing about Google Knol, and which is now beginning to gain members and become active: Knol Roll on Google Knol .
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August 13, 2007 at 7:30 am · Filed under blogs, general, google, search, search success
I added something to my Digital Biographer blog on 9th August about my interview broadcast on 12th August on BBC Radio Wales.
That’s not the news - the news is that I blogged the story at 08:15:56 - and it took less than 6 minutes for a Google Alert to reach my inbox, alerting me to the fact that somewhere out there, someone had used the phrase “digital biographer” in a blog. It was me, of course, who had mentioned it, and that was what Google Arts found, but six minutes is amazing.
Just in case you have not heard of Google Alerts or have not used the service - do go an take a look. In a nutshell, this is what it is:
Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
Some handy uses of Google Alerts include:
— monitoring a developing news story
— keeping current on a competitor or industry
— getting the latest on a celebrity or event
— keeping tabs on your favorite sports teams
You can set up the alert to cover different areas, (or all) such as news, blogs, web, and the alerts can go out as-it-happens, daily, or weekly. I have some alerts filtered to forward on to my mobile email, so if someone mentions a hot topic, or a customer is in the news, I know about if fast.
A very useful tool: Google Alerts.
PS: I was also pleased to hear that my interview with Adam Walton of BBC Radio Wales yesterday sounded good, was a good three minutes longer than expected, and was the lead story.
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