How to Transfer Feedburner account

While migrating or transferring a website to your ownership to another owner, an important task would be handing over accounts like Feedburner, Facebook fan page, Subscribers list etc.

Follow the steps to transfer a feed between one FeedBurner account to another:

1. Sign in to your account.
2. Click the title of the feed you want to send to someone else in the My Feeds list, and then click “Transfer Feed…” You will then be prompted to enter the email address of the publisher to whom you wish to transfer this feed.
3. Enter this email address and submit the form.

What is SOPA? Why Everyone hates it? 

SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act also known as H.R 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the US House of Representatives on 26^th October 2011 by Lamar Smith. This bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online piracy, content theft, and duplication of copyrighted intellectual property.

The bill was not very much welcomed around the world considering the after effect that it would have on the way Internet. Many major internet giants like Mozilla, Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn has opposed the SOPA rigidly.

To give a clearer picture of the issue, an organization backed by Mozilla, Creative Commons and Wikimedia has created this infographic below that shows the effect the bill could have on internet companies.

What is Hosted AdSense for Content?

If you have ever observed that within your Google Adsense Dashboard there is a product called “Hosted Adsense for content” and sometimes you might be already earning from this source. I recently observed this new product added to my adsense dashboard and I saw that it was earning quite a decent amount per day. Hence I decided to find out what exactly the source was and eventually found out that it was nothing but my income from the YouTube Channel!

If you have a YouTube channel and you upload content that are owned and created by self, you can surely make some money from your YouTube account and it will increase with the viewership of the content you are uploading. If you are interested to know how to become a YouTube Partner and How to earn money from YouTube you could refer the respective links given in this post.

How to Improve Gmail Account Security

With millions of eMail accounts hacked on a daily basis, Google email or Gmail has come up with an excellent solution binding the email account login with a two step verification bundeling it with a code verification from your mobile phone.

When you log in from a computer you don’t normally use, Gmail will ask you for your password and a code that you receive on your mobile phone. This will help prevent strangers from accessing your account with just a stolen password as its a combination of token and pin from your mobile phone.

This mechanism will not want you to enter the code each time you login in, basically you can remember your regular computer on the system hence enabling you to protect your account form other computer access only.

Google Algorithm update – Freshness!

Google recently announced an amazing algorithm update rightly called “Freshness” simply because its all about serving fresher search results to the search engine users. Google informed that this search engine update released on 3rd november 2011 will affect 35% of its search results and for good.

Google Explains the importance of the algorithm update with a very appropriate example: If you were to search for summer olympics, it makes non sense if Google was to return 1960 summer olympics page! The new search algorithm update makes sure that you are served with the latest search result for the next summer olympics.

You shall find the official algorithm update release blog post on the Google Blog here. This clearly speaks about the latest update release and how it will affect your blog or website.

What this update means to me as  a website owner: