How many of you use Google AdSense as one of the, if not the only, monetization solutions for your site? I think I'm getting an overwhelming nod of affirmation. The fact is, Google AdSense has been the choice of almost every blogger and website owner at least once during the course of their online venture. And countless consultants and service providers have sprung up who have built their businesses with AdSense, and now help publishers succeed with AdSense. To help such successful service providers and publishers and to recognize their AdSense expertise, Google has launched the Google AdSense Certified Partner Program!

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Of all the various time management tools out there, the Calendar seems the most proper and useful. Whether it be a business meeting, your friend’s birthday, or just a simple daily reminder, a good Calendar can make life easier. Talking of which, the Google Calendar is one of the most efficient and handy tool for event and time management of all types. With its integration with several other Google services, it is the most useful of its kind. Now let’s take a look at 10 really useful tips and tricks for using Google Calendar.

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Contact forms can be seen everywhere nowadays. Almost every blog or website has one.But you'd be surprised to know how few people actually know how to make one. Most simply use a third-party service, or install a plugin to create a working contact form. Although a fairly basic topic, it is nevertheless an important one, and the information about creating your own custom contact form can come in pretty handy, especially since you no longer need to rely on third-party services. So today, we'll learn how to create an attractive envelope-style contact form. This form will be fluid and fully responsive, so that it will look good on just about any screen size.

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Journalists, news agencies, and other media people have been using the internet and tools from Google for a long time to assist them go about their duties. For example, weather channels occasionally make use of Google Maps and Google Earth to demonstrate the effects of certain changing weather patterns. The New York Times recently used Google+ Hangouts to conduct an interview with US Secretary of State, John Kerry, about Syria's chemical weapons. And it doesn't end there. To assist journalists and media organizations further, Google has launched Google Media Tools, a centralized hub aimed at empowering journalists of all skill levels with more ways to connect with their audiences and communities.

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The Google Tag Manager is a marketing tool that lets business owners keep track and take control of their remarketing and other data-driven campaigns by letting them assign tags to campaigns and events in Google Analytics. Hence, Google Tag Manager makes it easy to track events. Ordinarily, tracking events requires adding custom Javascript and HTML code to your individual webpages to tell Google Analytics when the event occurred. But thanks to Google, this is no more the case. As announced on the Google Analytics blog, Google Tag Manager now hosts a latest feature - auto event tracking which lets you measure events happening on the page without writing HTML or Javascript!

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Google Analytics is a widely used analytics program used to monitor user interactions and behaviours. The Google Analytics team is always trying to bring out the latest and improved features, which is what makes it the best Analytics program for webmasters. In fact, a lot of new changes were introduced in this year's Google Analytics Summit, and they include the all new integration with Universal Analytics. Universal Analytics was launched last year, and is a technology that allows you to measure customer interactions across platforms and devices. It is the new operating standard for Google Analytics. And Google has just announced the Universal Analytics Upgrade Center, an easy, two-step process to upgrade your existing properties from classic Google Analytics to Universal Analytics.

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Google Analytics can be hard to follow, especially for beginners. They simply feel lost in a plethora of so many options and features, and are drowned out by so much information. And it isn't a challenge just for newbies either. Even experienced webmasters can have difficulty navigating through Google Analytics and finding the feature they're looking for. To help users with this problem, the Google Analytics team introduced the Analytics Solution Gallery back in February this year which was a portal of sorts where the Analytics team would upload basic collections of dashboards, reports and segments for users to import and use. Now though, Google Analytics has just made this Gallery public, allowing anyone to contribute their solutions, free for everyone to download them!

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