Webmasters can use GData to access feeds from the Google Message Center without having to continually check your messages in Webmaster tools

The Message Center GData API allows webmasters to retrieve all messages, mark them as read or unread, and delete messages.

The Google Webmaster Central Blog provides more details.

Retrieve messages: The messages feed contains all the messages sent to your account. These messages have important information about your verified sites. Examples of messages include infinite spaces warnings and crawl rate change notifications.

Mark messages as read or unread: In order to keep track of new communications from Google, you can mark your messages as read or unread, the same way that you would manage your inbox. If you retrieve a single message, this message will be automatically marked as read.

Delete messages: It’s possible to delete messages using the GData API. However, be careful because if you delete a message through the API it will also be deleted in your Webmaster Tools account, as both interfaces share the same data.

For more information visit the GData website. The homepage of the Webmaster Tools GData API has a section on message feeds, and details about protocol.

Users will now be able to see tax and shipping cost displayed alongside the product listings for which merchants have submitted this information. Google says that by providing this information it is a good way to maximize the visibility of your products during the holiday shopping season. It also helps buyers when they are making purchasing decisions.

The Google Base Help page explains how to submit information.

You can submit this information in two ways:
1. Set account-level default values in your Google Base account: These preferences will serve as the default values for all of your items. This is the easiest way to set up tax and shipping for your account.
2. Include item-level override values in your data feeds or via the Google Base API: These values will override your account-level default settings for that item.
To submit tax information there are three options.
1. Opt to not charge tax.
2. Set a tax rate based on the state an item ships to.
3. Use an estimate based on the destination ZIP code. Note: To estimate the tax rate, we use data from Tax Data Systems based on the destination ZIP code.
For shipping there are also three options.
1. Specify a flat shipping rate (or free shipping).
2. Define custom tables if the shipping rate you charge varies by price, weight, or number of items. Note: If you define a table based on the number of items, for now, we’ll use the rate in the first row only.
3. Apply a carrier-calculated rate if the shipping rate you charge is based on rates from UPS, FedEx, or USPS. Note: We use daily rates for UPS, and standard (non-retail counter) rates for FedEx.

Google also has tips for Google Product Search merchants.

From the Google Base Blog: Include unique product identifiers: In addition to using our five required attributes, be sure to include the recommended attributes relevant to your products, such as product identifiers like MPN, UPC, or ISBN. By including these, you’re giving us more information to help us include your products on Google Product Search product pages (our merchant comparison pages) when multiple merchants are selling the same product.

Use effective titles: There’s nothing like an accurate title to tell shoppers at a glance exactly what you’re selling, so be sure to use detailed and descriptive titles for your products. Do keep in mind that Product Search truncates titles to under 70 characters, so avoid exceedingly lengthy titles.

Write accurate descriptions: Descriptions offer an overview of the product you’re selling, so make sure that your descriptions are accurate and more than a few words in length. But if your descriptions are over 150 characters, you may want to shorten them to only include the most crucial information, as Product Search truncates longer descriptions.

Submit your feeds frequently: Lastly, remember to submit your data feeds regularly — up to once a day — to ensure that your product information is current for shoppers.

For example, if you are good with photoshop and enjoy creating images then you can head over to the Contest Section, where there’s a limitless number of contests available to the public (Remember that you have to enter to win! If you are skilled with Photoshop then there’s no limit to the amount of money you can earn through this section).

If Photoshop isn’t your thing, then there are plenty of other sections where quick cash is available. For example, Chris (from the Money007 team) has developed webpages in under 1 hour and sold them for a hefty $40 profit on the DP forums. Other quick money resoloutions include (and are not restricted to) buying and selling domains, buying selling and trading websites, providing traffic for money and providing random services such as coding html, CSS or even creating Youtube videos!

There is no doubt that the DP forums can be a very useful place for a webmaster with the right knowledge and experience, but don’t be fooled, quick money comes to those who have experience in certain fields and who know what they’re doing, there’s no such thing as a free lunch (except at money007). Whether you’re a beginner wanting to earn money online, or an experienced online webmaster looking to expand your horizons, the DP forums will prove a valuable asset.

The Money007 Team.

Advertisers

obviously, Advertisers have the ability to obtain links from publishers for as little as 1 point a link. Currently at the time of this post the point-dollar exchange rate is 1000 points per dollar. So a dollar for 1000 links is not too bad if you ask me even if the links are all PR0.\

Starting your first link campaign is a peice of cake. It’s as easy as hitting the “create new campaign” button. You then are asked to name your campaign, and select the types of sites you would like your links to appear on. The value of links is measured through Yahoo Backlinks and Google PageRank, hence the higher the PR the more expensive a link is.

For accurate targetting TNX allows you to choose the most relevant category to the URL you are promoting. Even better, you can GeoTarget, and only select sites that are in a specific language.

Creating ads is easy too. In fact, it reminds me of the adwords setup. You are encouraged to create a diverse range of ads, just incase the one’s you want are not approved.

Publishers

Publishing, selling adspace is relatively simple too. Firstly you submit your site to TNX, not that your site must be hosted on a server that supports Perl or PHP, and it must already be indexed by Google.

You can decide how many links are displayed on which pages, and what links are displayed. Helping to prevent irrelevnt ads.

What’s special about contest beat then?

Firstly, unlike a number of other contest sites with this kind of coverage and frequency of readers this ContestBeat is free. Other sites often charge upto $150 to post your contest on them.

For those of you who know about our tragic ‘Win a PS3′ competition, we will not make the same mistakes we made last time. If we ever do hold another contest (and we will). One of the changes we will make to our strategy will be the use of contest sites, notably ContestBeat.

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So in the future, when you come across a website asking for email confirmation that you may not trust, or would just like to register quickly to (without the hassle of having to login to your primary email address and receiving more pointless solicitation emails) then you can use 10 Minute Mail.