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:

How to create a Fan page on Google Plus

The idea of creating a brand or fan page on the Facebook is a big hit from its launch and now almost all brands makes it clear that even if they dont have a website they sure do have a fan page. If you already have a fan page on Facebook – Great! And if you dont have one yet, you could check my earlier article on how to create a Facebook fan page.

Google recently released this Google Plus Pages and its quite similar to a Google plus profile page and almost does all that you could do with a Google Plus profile, the major difference is that you can only add those people who have added your page. This feature will certainly help you later to target the users and manage campaigns based on various circles and hangouts your brand has created.

Steps to create a Google Plus Fan Page

Google Offering Free Domain Registration and Web Hosting for India

There are millions of Business owners in India who havent yet considered an eCommerce option to take their offline business to the next level. Google has launched an exciting new Initiative to sponsor 500,000 websites / business in India to offer them free Domain registration and Web hosting for 1 year in association with web hosting Giant HostGator.

Google is investing in a 3 year program by paying for the .in domain registry and hosting for small business entities. As part of this initiative they have launched an India Get Your Business Online website where you can apply for your free domain and web hosting account. In addition to the website, Google is also giving away Adwords credits worth 2500 Indian Rupees to all the applicants selected.

Gmail gets a Makeover and am Lovin it!

This one is for all those Gmail fans who love the fast and simple interface that Google has offered through its superb email service. Today I would like to share some more good news – Google Email launched its new look today which in my personal opinion is breathtaking and am seriously loving it!

How to activate the new look on Gmail?

Simply log in to your Gmail account and you will find a small notification on the right hand side bottom asking you to check out the latest version of Gmail. Google announced this new look in early July and were working hard on the improvements and feature updates all the summer and I can see their hard work has now paid off.

Streamlined conversations