How To Create a Google Knowledge Panel in 2024 [Updated]

Everything You Need to Know about the Google Knowledge Panel

Anjana Samindra Perera
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Google Knowledge Panels were first introduced in 2012 as part of Google’s Knowledge Graph project. They were originally called “Knowledge boxes” and were only displayed for a limited number of entities. After rebranding as knowledge panels around 2015 it was given to noticeable figures/ businesses than in the previous era.

Since it’s been more than a decade since Google introduced this having a knowledge panel to a person or a business entity is quite useful. So I’ll give you an idea on how to obtain one from my experience since I had it for a quite a time now. And here I would like to break the myth of owning a wiki page is been a requirement for having a knowledge panel. I can clarify that having a Wikipedia page is not a strict requirement for having a Google Knowledge Panel. While Wikipedia is a common source of information for Knowledge Panels, Google can generate Knowledge Panels based on a variety of sources and signals from the web.

Usually, obtaining a Google Knowledge Panel for yourself, your business, or an entity you…

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