I’m really looking forward to being involved again this year. I’m booked to be on two panels already and am looking forward to a load of great teaching but also some amazing networking with other bloggers.

If you’re interested – you can get 20% discount by using the ‘PROBLOGVIP’ coupon code (that 20% discount is on top of any other discount offered on the BWE site).

Last year was my first year off attendance and it was well worth the 24 hours of transiting each way for me to be there. For me the highlight was simply the people I met – suddenly blogging wasn’t an insular experience of me sitting alone in the front room of my house dressed in my PJs (sounds a little more depressing than it is) – blogging suddenly became a whole lot more social and ‘real life’.

The caliber of the speakers presenting this year is again very high – the list includes:

• Chris Brogan
• Steve Rubel
• Brian Clark
• Mari Smith
• Louis Gray
• Dave Taylor
• Chris Pirillo
• Shawn Collins
• Jeremy Owyang
• Jeremy Shoemaker
• Robert Scoble

The list goes on and on (I’ve literally just scratched the surface) and the expertise covers a wide array of topics on many aspects of both blogging and social media.

Speaking of topics – you can see a full 2009 schedule here including speaker names (looks like they still have to add a few of the keynote names).

Again – if you’re attending use the PROBLOGVIP coupon code and you’ll get a 20% discount on whatever BWE have the price currently advertised at on their site.

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As a result I want to recommend Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust to you. It’s a book that has just been released by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith and today it has skyrocketed up the Amazon best seller list (as I write this it is sitting at #34).

Why has it sold so many copies so quickly? The answer is simple – Chris Brogan is one of the most Trusted guys in social media that I know. He’s worked his butt off over the last couple of years building a presence (and more importantly building relationships) around the web. He doesn’t just build connections with the ‘A-list’ but with as many people as he can.

He injects himself into his blogging and other social media activities and as a result he’s widely regarded as a trusted source of information – the perfect guy to co-author this book.

I’ve started reading it and it’s great – please grab a copy today – Amazon currently have it at 34% off.

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Since finishing 31DBBB yesterday I’ve had a number of participants in the project email me to ask what other training that they can do to keep improving their blogs.

The realization that it seems many have had is that when you invest time and energy into your blog it does improve – our 31 day project has led many people to really step up their blogs and continue to see them improve.

As a result of these reader questions I’ve approached Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick from the popular Become a Blogger course to see if they’d be willing to open up their course again to 31DBBB participants (and all ProBlogger readers). I chose Become a Blogger because I think it’s at a level that many 31DBBB participants will find useful.

Get Become a Blogger for $1 for 2 Weeks – Yaro and Gideon didn’t hesitate to agree and then blew me away by offering ProBlogger readers access to their course for just $1 so that people could sample what they offer and see if it’s something that they want to continue with.

The deal is simple – Become a Blogger is normally $77 a month (it goes for 6 months) but if you sign up as a ProBlogger reader you get a trial period of two weeks for $1. If you don’t want to continue just email Yaro and Gideon and canceling your membership.

What is Become a Blogger?

This is a course for those just starting out with blogging or who have started but are struggling to set it up a level. Here are the 8 modules covered in the video training:

1. Get Your Blog Up And Running Fast And FREE
2. How To Optimize Your Blog For Maximum Search Engine Performance
3. How To Create Powerful Content For Your Blog, Consistently and Without Fail
4. How To Use Images On Your Blog To Make You Stand Out From The Crowd
5. How To Create A Different Dimension To Your Blog By Adding Audio
6. How To Breathe Life Into Your Blog Using Online Video
7. How To Create Multiple Streams of High Quality Traffic To Your Blog
8. How To Make Money From Your Blog

There are a variety of good bonuses also on the sales page including a forum are and teleconferences to help you step it up.

You can read full details of what is included in the modules and bonuses on the sales page of Become a Blogger. They also have some free videos on that page to give you a feel for what the course is like.

PS – Don’t have a Blog?: if you don’t yet have a blog then this course is relevant for you as it does have a module on setting up blogs from scratch. Others who already have blogs will find modules 2-7 well worth their time.

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Yaro’s just old me that it’s now available for you to download.

The report contains some great information on how Yaro uses membership sites to build significant community sites and a six figure income. If you’ve ever considered a membership site as a way to make money online I’d recommend you get the report for a look.

While Yaro will follow this report up with a paid membership site for further teaching (he’s previous ones have been excellent) the report itself contains good information whether you go further in the process or not – Yaro’s approach has always been to create valuable resources and this one is no exception.

Signup to download Yaro’s report here.

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Membership Site Masterplan Report is now Ready for Download

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The event is the Social Media Success Summit 2009.

The event is a live online event (although you have access to recordings if you can’t make the live components) and it is being organized by Michael A. Stelzner from White Paper Source. As the name suggests – this event is all about social media and discovering how to use tools like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to grow your business.

Speakers are all experts in different aspects of social media and include:

• Gary Vaynerchuck (Wine Library TV)
• Mari Smith (Facebook Expert)
• Jason Alba (Linked In Expert)
• Ann Handley (chief content officer from MarketingProfs)
• Brian Clark (CopyBlogger)
• Chris Garrett (Co Author of ProBlogger the Book)
• Denise Wakeman (BlogSquad)
• Michael A. Stelzner (White Paper Guru)

The sessions start on May 26 and happen over a number of days to give you time to digest it all.

I’m doing a panel discussion on 3rd June with Brian Clark on ‘The Future of Social Media: What’s Going to be Hot and What’s Not).

The Social Media Success Summit 2009 is based around live calls where you get to interact with those presenting but also gives you access to recordings and transcripts of the calls if you want to review them later or can’t make the live calls.

There is currently a $200 early bird discount. I hope that this is something that will interest you and hope to see you in class!

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Many of you will be aware that over the weekend and in the days since my home state of Victoria here in Australia suffered one of the worst natural disasters in the history of our country. Bushfires swept across many part of our states with many separate fires on the hottest day in our history (where it reached over 47 degrees celcius (just over 117 degrees fahrenheit) and on a day where we had an incredible northerly wind.

Today – 3 days after the start of this disaster the death toll is 181 people with 750+ homes destroyed. Authorities fear that the death toll will rise to above 300 as many people are unaccounted for.

Some of the beautiful little towns around the outskirts of Melbourne have virtually been wiped out with barely a building left standing and large percentages of residents either dead, horrifically injured or missing. Some of the stories emerging from the areas impacted by fire are truly heart breaking and quite terrifying.

Much has been written and reported about the fires – some of which still burn out of control – you can read some of the reports in our city’s two major newspapers (The Age and The Herald Sun) or follow much of it on Twitter via following the hashtag #bushfires or @774Melbourne (ABC radio’s twitter coverage). You can see some of the amazing pictures and hear some of the powerful stories from the last few days here and here.

Many fund raising projects are underway – most of the donations are being funneled to the Australian Red Cross bushfire Appeal.

An Offer to Get You Some Great Books and Help the Bushfire Appeal

One fundraiser that I particularly want to draw your attention to is something that I had the opportunity to participate in in a small way today at the local offices of SitePoint.  

They have today worked around the clock to put together a promotion where you can not only help raise money for the bushfire crisis – but also come away with some great teaching.

The offer is simple – you choose any 5 of their books (they have a great range to choose from) and order them in PDF format sometime between now and Friday of this week (3 days from now) and they’ll give you them for the price of 1 AND give the money that you pay to the bushfire appeal.

This isn’t a publicity stunt.

The team at SitePoint have a genuine passion for this cause and some have been personally impacted by it through the loss of loved ones. The management basically gave all 30 staff members the day off normal duties today to dedicate to putting together some kind of project to raise money – and this is what they came up with. You can read more about their motivation for this offer at the bottom of their offer page.

Their goal is to raise over $50,000 USD in the next three days. I’d like to see that go higher.

Personally I think it’s a great offer and has the potential to raise a lot of money. You can view it here.

Books that you can choose from are from a wide perspective of topics (there are 26 to choose from) including some pretty techy/geeky/coding type books on CSS, AJAX and HTML – through to books on web design, freelancing, firefox and project management.

Here are the five PDF books I’ve chosen for my $29.95 USD:

1. The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
2. Principles of Successful Freelancing
3. The Photoshop Anthology
4. Everything You Know about CSS is Wrong!
5. Build Your Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS

There are plenty of others to choose from and you can mix and match them as you choose to get the bundle of books that is right for you.

If you’d like to take advantage of this offer and support the victims of this natural disaster in my home state then please do head to SitePoint’s offer page here. If the offer is not for you – please consider a donation to the Australian Red Cross bushfire Appeal.

Please also consider tweeting, blogging, emailing and passing on this opportunity in any way that you see fit.

PS: thanks to everyone for your messages of concern, sympathy and encouragement over the last few days. I’ve lost count of the amount of emails and tweets I’ve received from people asking if my family are safe. In short – the answer is yes – we’re 40km or so from the nearest fires. We live in the middle of suburbia and the fires are on the outskirts of Melbourne and rural areas – we’re fine and feeling fortunate for that.

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But you’d better be quick – it closes to new members at the end of the week.

The course is actually the baby of Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips and numerous other successful blogs but what is special about it is the group of mentors who are experts in a number of fields relevant to growing an online business. The mentors are:

Yaro Starak, Neil Patel, Hamlet Batista, Michael Gray , Tamar Weinberg, Daniel Scocco, Zac Johnson, Courtney Tuttle, Nathan Rice and Skellie Wag.

Together they have expertise in blogging, SEO, affiliate marketing, web design, social media, advertising, content creation and much more. I really like this approach – instead of basing the course around one or two people with great experience in a couple of things but only a general knowledge in other important aspects of internet marketing – Daniel has assembled a group of experts in numerous fields who together will offer an amazing collective wisdom and set of experiences to the community.

As a result the list of 21 modules and 66 lessons that make up the course are quite impressive. Here are the main modules (you can read more about each and see all lessons here):

Module 1: Introduction and Business Principles

Module 2: Domain Names

Module 3: Setting Up Your Website

Module 4: WordPress

Module 5: Web Design for Entrepreneurs

Module 6: Business Models

Module 7: Selecting Your Niche

Module 8: Blogs

Module 9: Other Types of Websites

Module 10: Web Content and Copywriting

Module 11: Basic SEO

Module 12: Advanced SEO

Module 13: Generating Traffic

Module 14: Social Media

Module 15: Web Metrics

Module 16: Selling Advertising

Module 17: Email Marketing

Module 18: Affiliate Marketing

Module 19: PPC (Pay-per-Click)

Module 20: Landing Pages

Module 21: Selling Your Products

I feel a little exhausted and yet inspired just looking at that list. I can’t think of a lot more I’d want covered if I were starting an online business. Daniel tells me that the lessons will come in both text and audio. There are also private forums for participants and mentors to interact, interviews and case studies, tools and resources and more.

Daniel sent me a couple of lessons last week and they were both comprehensive, practical and useful. The kind of teaching that would definitely be understandable by beginners but also helpful to anyone in the early to intermediate stages of developing an online business.

Online Profits launches today (12 Jan) at 50% off and will close its doors on 16 January until late 2009 so that the mentor team can concentrate on those who join up.

There is a 30 day money back guarantee and you’re able to withdraw from the course at any point and only pay up to the point you’ve participated in.

Read full details of Online Profits and Signup Here.

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Online Profits Course Launches with 50% Discount

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• WordPress 2.7 is out and available for download.
• AdSens have extended their domains program to anyone who wants to use their ads on their unused domains.
• Speaking of AdSense – if you’re expecting a Christmas gift from them in the mail this year (they have sent out gifts to their medium to larger publishers for years now) – you’re not likely to get one. An AdSense representative has said this at Webmaster World earlier in the month – “We really appreciate the work you all put into building great sites. However, we feel that gift-giving is not the most appropriate gesture this year given the current global economic climate…..I know you may be disappointed, but I hope you can understand our efforts to be fiscally responsible in these times.” I guess there will be no digital picture frames, packs of USB goodies or glowing radios this year.

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Speedlinking – 15 December 2008

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I remember thinking halfway through BWE this year that a lot of the content being covered wasn’t strictly about blogging. There were lots of sessions exploring other types of social media that related to blogging. I wasn’t complaining – but it wasn’t strictly about blogging.

2009’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo will take place October 15 – 17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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Blog World Expo and New Media Expo Merge Into One Event

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The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging was released on 2 December so I’m yet to see it (I’ve just treated myself to a copy for my own Christmas Stocking).

Chapters include:

Part 1

• Getting Started
• Getting Notice
• Finding Your Voice
• Community: Creating and Building It

Part 2: The Blog Revolution is Here! Be a Part of It

• A Blog is Born: A Brief History of the Huffington Post and Its Impact
• How the Blogosphere is Remaking the Media

Part 3: The Huffington Post Resource Section

• The Huffington Post Blogroll
• Glossary of Blogging Terms
• Website Resource List
• Best of The HuffPost Blogs
• Acknowledgements

Looks like this will be an interesting read. It’s good to see Amazon giving the option to bundle it with the ProBlogger book – hopefully they make a nice companion set.

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Huffington Post Releases Complete Guide to Blogging Book

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To get the information they approached 20 top-tier tech bloggers and social media consultants, half of them responded (so this isn’t a massive sample).

While the sample size is small the results revealed:

• Most bloggers getting paid about $25 a post (with the full range being between $10-$200 a post).
• In house/Full time bloggers earn annual pay of between $45,000 to $55,000 (with benefits) and up to $70,000-$90,000 with bonuses.
• The real money seems to be in consulting with hourly rates not below $150 an hour and $300 an hour the most common rate named.

Read the full report and analysis at How Much Do Top Tier Bloggers and Social Media Consultants Get Paid? We Asked Them!

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How Much Do Bloggers Earn? [Survey Results]

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Bankaholic has a staff of 1 (Johns Wu) who will remain on at the blog.

If this price is true it’s a fairly decent sale for Mr Wu (understatement of the year) – the blog has an Alexa ranking of 42,168 and averages less than 20 comments per post. The blog does seem to rank very well for a lot of bank terms and I’m sure drives targeted traffic and would convert well with affiliate products – but this is still a fairly inspiring sale!

Here’s the Google Trends chart of the blog showing a steady growth over the last year.

Hat tip to Patrick who was first to let me know of this.

updated for accuracy

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1 Man Blog Sells for $15 Million Dollars

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• Scott Karp writes a fascinating post on how Drudge Report (a site that links out a lot) has a higher reader engagement level than other sites who link out less.
• Shoemoney shares how to get advertisers or sponsors for your website.
• The Amazon Associates Program has introduced Amazon Video On Demand as a product to promote. You can earn 10% of the cost of movies and TV shows that people download.
• Ducan Riley shares some thoughts on how to find your niche and knowing your blogging goals.
• WordPress 2.6.2 is out and it closes an exploit in previous versions.
• Jonathan Bailey shares where he gets post ideas.
• Jim shares some of the process that he went through in his thinking before he went ‘Pro’ as a blogger.

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Speedlinking – 17 September 2008

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This makes the lineup – Brian Clark from CopyBlogger, John Chow, Zac Johnson, Jim Kukral, ShoeMoney and myself. It’s going to be some panel. I’m very excited because while I’ve met Jeremy and Brian before the other four will be first time meetings for me.

The only challenge is going to be that the session is only 60 minutes and with 6 of us it’s going to be hard to fit it all in! Hopefully we can find some time together outside the session to create some more good connecting and learning!

Register with the code PBVIP (or any of the others that are going around at the moment) and you get 20% off. If you’re coming – don’t forget to get there a day early so you can come to b5’s free day of training on the 19th.

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What do you get if you put Shoemoney, CopyBlogger, Chow, Johnson, Kukral and ProBlogger in the same Room?

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It is running on 19 September at the Las Vegas Convention center and all we ask if you’re attending is to RSVP before hand so that we can make sure we’re set up adequately for those who are coming.

The day is designed to help our bloggers improve their blogging but will be relevant to bloggers who are not a part of the network also. It will include sessions with different members of our management team, channel editors and partners as well as a Q and A session with Board of Advisors (Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Hugh McLeod, Renee Blodgett and Stowe Boyd).

There will only be one session that is ‘closed’ and jut for b5 bloggers so if you’d like to attend we’d love to have you. We’re not expecting hundreds or thousands of people to attend which will allow for more Q & A and personal interaction between presenters and attendees.

The sessions planned (and we’re still tweaking and locking in the times and topics) are:

I am planning to stuff my session as full as possible with tips on finding readers for your blog and hope to have time for Q & A and a little brainstorming together.

To Register…

If you are a registered attendee of Blog World Expo (sign up here) all you need to do to attend is RSVP to Rachel Segal at rachel AT b5media DOT com – just include your name. She can then give you details of where it’ll be (room numbers etc) and any other details as well as give you the most up to date schedule for the day as it comes to hand.

PS: the only other thing to note is that lunch isn’t provided. You’ll need to bring something or buy something at or around the venue.

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b5 Blogger Summit at Blog World Expo – Free Extra Day of Training for BWE Attendees

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1. Screen Casts Rock – Here’s Who’s Rocking Them Now – RRW showcases great Screen Casters
2. 7 Tips for New Twitter Users – From Shel (don’t forget my Twitter tips for Beginners)
3. Why a Footer in 43 Folders Feed Items? – Merlin Mann shares why he added a footer in his feeds to combat scrapers
4. Spam Blogs Republish Your RSS Feeds? Use this to your Advantage – on a similar theme to Merlin’s post – Amit Agarwal shares how to make sure you get some Google Juice if someone scrapes your feed
5. AdSense Click Tracking Data in Google Analytics Is Coming Soon – Amit also picks up this story which will be music to many AdSense publishers ears!
6. On Domain Names, Size and Quality DOES Matter! – Daniel releases some research that he’s done into domain names.
7. Blogger Sued for $20 Million for Calling Company a Scammer – Watch what you post!
8. Examining The Internet’s Top Blogs: What We Can Learn From their Success - SEOMoz does some great research into different aspects of 100 top blogs – even though they did say that I don’t own my own blog or register it as Australian :-)
9. 5 Easy ways to Start a Productive Day – ever have those days where you get nothing done? Here’s some hints on how to start them better.
10. No Idea Left Behind: 25 Tool for Capturing Ideas Anywhere – LifeDev has written a post here that many bloggers will find useful. I’m enjoying Evernote these days.
11. Vote for my Proposed Panel at SXSW here – it’s on Responsible Blogger/Public Relations Interaction

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11 SpeedLinks for Professional Bloggers and Web Workers

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I hope you’ll consider joining me in this year’s Blog Action Day – The topic This year is Poverty.

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Join me in Blog Action Day – 15 October 2008

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I’ve had a lot of people email me to ask what I think about the technique. My response:

1. It’s not surprising to see that it’s Possible - I’ve seen a few bloggers play with this type of technique over the years.

2. It’s an empty Achievement - so your feedburner button is a few thousand more tomorrow than it is today – but ultimately all it means is that you hacked it – no one new is reading your blog.

3. Do something that Matters – Expend the energy doing something that draws in real new readers. Network with other bloggers, write some quality content, write a guest post for another blog, make your blog stickier…. do something that matters

4. Social Proof? – Yes, having more numbers in your feedburner counter might convince a few extra people to subscribe (social proof) but what happens next week when feedburner closes the loophole and suddenly your regular readers see that you’ve just lost a couple of thousand readers? Is there such a thing as reverse social proof?

5. Risk? – I’ve never really been into ‘evil’ tactics – partly because I just don’t get into them but partly because when you deliberately do something to abuse a service that is provided to you by a company – sometimes things come back to bite you. I’m not sure if Feedburner (owned by Google) would take action against people trying to inflate their numbers – but do you really want to find out?

Want to know how to really build the number of subscribers to your blog?

• 11 Ways to Find New RSS Subscribers for your Blog
• A Secret to Finding New Subscribers for Your Blog (the start of a 3 part series)

OK – lets get back to blogging shall we?

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How to Get 2500 New ‘Subscribers’ to Your Blog Overnight (and Why I Don’t Really Care)

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Every time I come to write about TeachingSells, its creators have added new courses/modules to it.

They’ve now completed adding this content and it stands as 10 courses with a series of bonus modules added (you can read about them in the closing doors announcement). There is so much rich content in this resource that every time I visit it I feel like a kid in a candy store – picking up profitable idea after profitable idea.

The 10 central courses are:

• How to Create Content That Sells
• How to Effectively Market Interactive Learning Environments
• How to Create Killer Multimedia Content with Quick and Easy Tools
• Seven Profitable Business Models for Interactive Content Developers
• Your Blueprint for Building Membership Sites with Open Source and Low-Cost Software
• Educational Marketing: Persuasive Promotional Content That Prompts Action
• Advanced Positioning and Creative Adaptation Strategies
• Quick, Easy, and Inexpensive Niche-Focused Membership Sites
• Multimedia Storytelling – When the Medium is NOT the Message
• Launch Strategies for Membership Sites and Training Programs

In addition there’s a great forum, library of resources and the support of great instructors – all with a money back guarantee.

If you’re not familiar with TeachingSells the best place to start is by downloading this free report that takes you through some of the principles behind it (the report itself is well worth the read even if you don’t invest in the actual course).

This is not a course about blogging for money – but it’s one that will help you extend what you’ve learned and achieved with your blog and take it further.

Doors close on TeachingSells at midnight on 31 July. Brian Clarke (one of it’s founders) writes that it will re-open at some point but it’ll be at a higher price point and in a different form.

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TeachingSells to Close Doors 31 July

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So today Google finally opened up and launched Launched Knol (it’s been coming for a while) a place where people can publish ‘authoritative articles about specific topics’. It’s like Wikipedia in that articles can be edited by others – but changes need to be approved by the authors of the articles. Articles can be monetized in a revenue share arrangement where Google and the authors share income derived from articles.

My Three initial reactions to Knol

Google Competing with it’s Partners

My mind goes back to sitting in the offices of Google in Sydney where in a presentation by a Google staff member (a fairly highly ranked one) I heard him say that Google was not in the content business and didn’t ever want to compete with their publishers sites. He said that they were in the business of organizing the world’s information and not creating it. There was a murmur in the room at the time and a few raised eyebrows because we’d been hearing about these kinds of new products emerging from Google where they not only organize information but host it on their own properties. It’s a fine line – increasingly so with Knol.

Back in 2006 Google CEO Eric Schmidt was famously quoted as saying that Google was not a media company – “But that doesn’t make us a media company. We don’t do our own content. We get you to someone else’s content faster.”

Hmmm.

There’s a lot of talk going around the blogosphere today about how Knol is a Wikipedia killer – but I wonder whether it could ‘kill’ (or perhaps maim would be more appropriate) a few smaller publishers before they really hurt Wikipedia.

Update: for more thoughts on this see Journalistopia.

I can only imagine how highly Knol articles are going to rank in Google’s search results in a year or two. Wikipedia makes it difficult enough for a publisher to grab the number 1 ranking for many terms in Google simply because of it’s size and the number of links pointing at it – have we just seen the launch of a product that will mean #1 and #2 positions are generally taken?

Spam Haven?

I can almost hear the blackhat community running over to Knol to see how it can be manipulated. I’m sure Google have safe guards in place – but where there’s a will there’s a way.

Pro-Knolers

I’ve come across a number of people lately who have gone full time (or close to it) using Squidoo to publish articles and monetize them. They’ve build up profiles and search rankings for their Squidoo pages to the point that they’re able to generate significant incomes via advertising and affiliate revenue. I suspect we’ll see the same with Knol.

It’s going to be an interesting one to watch!

What do you think about Knol? Is it something that could help or hurt your blogging?

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Google’s Knol – A Wikipedia Killer or a Blog Killer?

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