Monday, December 15, 2008

List of major search engines

URLs for all the major search engines

We offer the list of all giant search engines, some of these are national search engine, some are domestic and some of them are global search engine. Please report if any links to show error page on info@gmail.com.com

Major search engines
Pay-per-click sites
Meta-crawlers
File searching sites
New, experimental engines
Search directories with search capabilities
ISPs with search engines
Regional search engines
Arabic
Australia
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Finland
Germany
Greece
India
Israel
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Spain/Spanish
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Turkey
UK/Europe
Search Engine translations services
Other lists of search engines
Search engine related sites

Major search engines

www.alltheweb.com

Help is at http://www.alltheweb.com/help.php3
You can submit your domain at http://www.fast.no/documents/atw/ (suspended at the moment)
You can read about Fast at http://www.fast.no/company.html

www.altavista.com

Text-only version at http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/text
Translation at http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
Advanced search at http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/adv
Add URLs at http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/addurl

www.dejanews.com or http://groups.google.com/

"power search" at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml
Power help at http://www.dejanews.com/help/help_ps.shtml

www.excite.com

Advanced search help is at http://www.excite.com/Info/searching3.html
Add URL at http://www.excite.com/info/add_url/

http://magellan.excite.com/

http://magellan.excite.com/magellan/Info/advancedtips.html
Add URL at http://magellan.excite.com/info/add_url

www.google.com

Advanced search at http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Help is at http://www.google.com/help.html
Add URL is at http://www.google.com/addurl
Read about Google at http://www.google.com/why_use.html

www.hotbot.com

http://www.hotbot.com/?MT=&SM=MC&DV=0&LG=any&DC=10&DE=2&_v=2&OPs=MDRTP&act.super.x=151&act.super.y=23
http://www.hotbot.com/help/tips/search_features.asp
Add URL at http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.asp
Text-only version at http://hotbot.lycos.com/text/

www.infoseek.com

Advanced search is at http://infoseek.go.com/find?pg=advanced_www.html&ud9=advanced_www
Tips can be found at http://infoseek.go.com/Help?pg=SearchTips.html
Add URL at http://infoseek.go.com/AddUrl?pg=SubmitUrl.html

www.lycos.com

Advanced search at http://www.lycos.co.uk/search/options.html
Add a site at http://www.lycos.co.uk/service/addasite.html.

www.planetsearch.com

Search tips at http://www.planetsearch.com/?a=9&w=tips
Add URL at http://www.planetsearch.com/?a=19&flags=3&count=10

www.northernlight.com

Power search at http://www.northernlight.com/power.html
Help (several pages) at http://www.northernlight.com/docs/search_help_optimize.html
Add URL at http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html

http://ragingsearch.altavista.com/

Help is at http://ragingsearch.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=acc&v=help

Customize at http://doc.altavista.com/raging-custom/results.html

www.supersnooper.com

Read about Super Snooper at http://www.supersnooper.com/AboutDisclaim.htm
Check your URL at http://www.supersnooper.com/CheckURL.htm
Add your URL at http://www.supersnooper.com/AddURL.htm

www.topclick.com

Help at http://www.topclick.com/search_tips_basic.html
Advanced search help is at http://www.topclick.com/search_tips_advanced.html.
Add URL at http://www.topclick.com/add_url.html

www.voila.com

Advanced search is at http://www.voila.fr/sop?refine=ok&lg=UK. (This
Help is at http://www.voila.com/Informations/
Add your URL at http://www.voila.com/Info/addsite.html.

www.webcrawler.com

Add URL at http://www.webcrawler.com/info/add_url/

www.whatuseek.com

Add URL at http://www.whatUseek.com/noshock/addurl-tableset.shtml

Pay-per-click sites

www.crosslinkz.com [New]

Add (create account) at http://www.crosslinkz.com/se/add.shtml

www.findwhat.com

Help at http://www.findwhat.com/static/help_search.html
http://www.findwhat.com/static/ab_promote.html

www.goto.com

Help is at http://iwww.goto.com/d/about/
"Promote your site" is at http://iwww.goto.com/d/about/advertisers/

www.hootingowl.com [New]

Add listing at http://www.hootingowl.com/directory_faq.cfm?u=0000000
About at http://www.hootingowl.com/1how_to_list.cfm?u=0000000

www.kanoodle.com

About at http://www.kanoodle.com/about/about.html

www.rocketlinks.com or www.bay9.com or www.baynine.com

List your site at http://www.bay9.com/enter.cgi?link=&clicktrade=
Sign up at http://www.bay9.com/cgi-local/step1.cgi?link=&clicktrade=

www.searchcactus.com

Help at http://www.searchcactus.com/tips.asp
Promote your site at http://www.searchcactus.com/advertiser/
FAQ at http://www.searchcactus.com/advertiser/faq.asp

www.searchhound.com

Submit URL at http://www.searchhound.com/Pages/submit.htm, guidelines are
at http://www.searchhound.com/cgi-bin/sh_acc_pages.cgi?../Pages/guidelines.htm
Make bids at https://www.searchhound.com/Pages/bids.htm

www.sprinks.com

Promote your site at http://sprinks.about.com/


Meta-crawlers

www.askjeeves.com

Help is at http://www.askjeeves.com/docs/help.html

www.c4.com

Help at http://www.c4.com/help.html
"Get listed" at http://www.c4.com/listed.html

www.dogpile.com

Help is at http://www.dogpile.com/notes.html

www.debriefing.com

Add URL at http://www.ineedhits.com/add-it/pro/, but this is in fact

www.gohip.com

www.ignifuge.com

www.idexer.com

More features and description at http://www.idexer.com/idexer.htm

www.infozoid.com

FAQ at http://www.infozoid.com/info/faq.html

www.ixquick.com

Power search described at http://ixquick.com/power_search_techniques.htm
Add ixquick to your site at http://ixquick.com/sws_link_instructions.htm

www.megaspider.com

www.metacrawler.com

This would appear to also be www.go2net.com
Power search is at http://www.go2net.com/index_power.html
Search Tips are at http://www.go2net.com/help/faq/query.html
Add URL is at http://www.go2net.com/help/faq/add-url.html

www.metaiq.com

About at http://www.metaiq.com/link.html

www.multimeta.com

Help is at http://www.multimeta.com/faq.htm
Add URL (to 20 engines) at http://multimeta.com/submit/submit.cgi
Register for email searched at http://www.multimeta.com/members/whyregister.htm

www.newsindex.com

Help is at http://www.newsindex.com/shelp.html

www.quickbrowse.com/qbsearch.cgi or www.qbsearch.com

Help is at http://www.quickbrowse.com/help/gettingstarted.html
Their story is at http://www.quickbrowse.com/story/

www.savvysearch.com/search

Submit (to many search engines) at http://www.savvysearch.com/submit
You can "snoop" on recent requests at http://www.savvysearch.com/snoop

http://search.searchalot.com/

Add URL at http://searchalot.com/addurl.htm

www.surfwax.com/surfwax.html

Help is at http://www.surfwax.com/help/tutorials/search.htm

www.tsunamisearch.com

Advanced search is at http://www.TsunamiSearch.com/mp/search.cgi?aff=default&cat=1&dis=f&ds=1&qt=and&rps=10&sas=1&sc=&sid=985858221_4280&site=ww1&site=ww5&site=ww6&

www.virtualfish.com [New]

About at http://www.virtualfish.com/why_use_it.html

www.web-search.com or www.noimages.com

Submit URLs at http://www.noimages.com/faq2.html

www.wiz.co.uk/search.asp


File searching sites

www.diggit.com [New]

FAQ at http://www.diggit.com/FAQ.html, tutorial at http://www.diggit.com/tutorial/index.html
Advanced search is at http://www.diggit.com/SMPdb?opt=

http://ftpsearch.lycos.com/

Advanced searches at http://lycospro.lycos.com/

http://search.gozilla.com/websearch.asp [New]

www.singingfish.com [New]

About is http://www.singingfish.com/about.html
Submit URL at http://www.singingfish.com/add.html


New, experimental engines

www.aesop.com [New]

About is at http://www.aesop.com/about.htm
Add URL is at http://www.aesop.com/cgi-bin/sub/submiturl.cgi
Read about the AESOP META tag at http://www.aesop.com/metatag.htm

www.allthesites.com

About is http://www.allthesites.com/aboutus.htm
Submit URL at http://www.allthesites.com/submit.htm
Advanced search at http://www.allthesites.com/advanced/search.asp
Help is at http://www.allthesites.com/searchhelp.htm

www.directhit.com

Help ia http://www.directhit.com/help/
Add URL at http://www.directhit.com/util/addurl.html
Advanced search at http://www.directhit.com/AdvancedSearch.asp
About is at http://www.directhit.com/about/index.html

www.findanything.com

About is at http://www.findanything.com/About

www.findia.net

Help at http://findia.net/help.html

www.hotrate.com

Become an editor at http://www.hotrate.com/suggestURL.asp
Add URL at http://www.hotrate.com/SuggestURL3.asp
About at http://www.hotrate.com/about.asp

www.ilor.com [New]

Help (requires Flash) is at http://www.ilor.com/ILSFlash.htm, About is at http://www.ilor.com/ILSAbout.htm
FAQ at http://www.ilor.com/ILSFAQ.htm
Advanced search at http://www.ilor.com/searchilor.lor?&start=0&pg=aq&as_q=

www.infind.com/infind/infind.exe

www.iwon.com

Advanced search at http://www.iwon.com/home/search/search_advanced/0,11749,0,00.html
http://www.iwon.com/home/winning/howitworks_overview/1,11933,,00.html

www.links2go.com

Help is at http://www.links2go.com/help
About is at http://www.links2go.com/about

www.monkeysweat.com

www.oingo.com

Search tips at http://www.oingo.com/find.dll?s=&r=y&m=&x=25&y=17#
Add URL at http://www.oingo.com/addsite.html, although really you can only add
by entering your site into the Open Directory project at http://dmoz.org/
Help is at http://www.oingo.com/help.html

www.searchit.com

Add URL at http://www.searchit.com/addurl.htm

http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch/

Edit a site at http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/modify/modify.html
Read about it at http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch/about.html

www.slider.com [New]

Add URL at http://www.slider.com/addurl.htm
Help at http://www.slider.com/help.htm (though there's not much there)
Encyclopedia is at http://www.slider.com/index/indexaa.htm

www.subjex.com [New]

Add a page at http://www.subjex.com/addapage.html
Read about it at http://www.subjex.com/about.html

www.teoma.com [New]

Help is at http://www.teoma.com/help.html

www.vivisimo.com [New]

FAQ at http://vivisimo.com/vivisimo-1.1/html/FAQ.html

www.webbrain.com

Help and more about WebBrain at http://www.webbrain.com/about_frame.html
Add URL is the ODP page http://dmoz.org/add.html

www.webhelp.com

About at http://direct.webhelp.com/direct/html/aboutDirect.html
FAQ at http://www.webhelp.com/webhelp/faq/faq_company.html

www.webzone.com or www.infohiway.com

Add URL at http://www.webzone.com/isn/addurl.html

www.wisenut.com [New]

WiseSearch at http://www.wisenut.com/WISEsearch.html
About is at http://www.wisenut.com/company.html

www.wordpond.com


Search directories with search capabilities

www.about.com

Search tips at http://search.about.com/scripts/Query70.asp?PM=112_410_T&faq=yes&COB=home

http://search.cnet.com/

About SEARCH.COM is at http://search.cnet.com/About/0,69,0,0200.html

http://dmoz.org/

Help is at http://dmoz.org/searchguide.html
Add URL is at http://dmoz.org/add.html

http://search.indya.com/

About at http://www.indya.com/aboutus/index.html

www.looksmart.com

www.netguide.com

Submit a site at http://www.netguide.com/aboutus/aboutreviews.html

www.netscape.net

www.yahoo.com

Options page is at http://search.yahoo.com/search/options
Help page is at http://www.yahoo.com/docs/info/help.html
Advanced tips are at http://search.yahoo.com/search/syntax

www.worldsearchcenter.com

Add URL is at http://www.worldsearchcenter.com/add_url.cfm
Help is at http://www.worldsearchcenter.com/docs/help/searching_faq.cfm


ISPs with search engines

www.aol.com/netfind/home.html

Search tip is at http://www.aol.com/netfind/tips/home.html
Add your site at http://www.aol.com/netfind/info/addyoursite.html

www.nbci.com (or www.snap.com)

Search tips at http://www.nbci.com/LMOID/resource/0,566,home-136,00.html?fd.srch.tip
Power search at http://www.nbci.com/search/power/form/0,179,home-0,00.html?fd.srch.pwr
Add URL at http://www.nbci.com/LMOID/resource/0,566,home-1077,00.html?st.sn.ft.0.surl
Directory is at http://www.nbci.com/dir/0,668,home-0,00.html

http://search.btinternet.com/

Advanced search at http://search.btinternet.com/default.asp?act.advancedQuery=1&

http://www.compuserve.com/compuserve/search_landing.asp

Help at http://www.compuserve.com/compuserve/search_landing.asp
(a.k.a http://websearch.cs.com/)

www.geocities.com

http://search.icq.com/

Help is at http://search.icq.com/help/
Submit URL at http://search.icq.com/default.asp?act.addurl=addurl

http://search.msn.com/

Advanced search at http://search.msn.com/advanced.asp
Advanced help is at http://search.msn.com/helpadv.htm
Submit URL at http://search.msn.com/addurl.asp

www.xoom.com

Search tips is at http://xoom.snap.com/main/help/item/0,11,-6736,00.html?tt.xm.sb.0.tips


Regional search engines

Arabic

www.arabia.com

Australia

www.anzwers.com.au
www.ausindex.com.au
www.cowleys.com.au
www.goeureka.com.au
www.ozengine.com/ozengine
www.ozguide.com/search/
www.ozsearch.com.au
www.platonsearch.com/australia
www.sofcom.com.au
www.webfind.com.au
www.websearch.com.au
www.webwombat.com.au
www.wilddogsearch.com.au
www.excite.com.au
www.looksmart.com.au
www.yahoo.com.au

Canada

www.maplesearch.com

Czech Republic

www.seznam.cz

Denmark

www.jubii.dk
www.kvasir.dk

France

www.spray.fr/search/index.jsp
www.trouvez.com
www.free.fr/chercher/
www.webhelp.fr
www.nomade.fr
www.walhello.com/mainfr.html
www.infozoid.com/francais/

Finland

www.walhello.com/mainfi.html
http://www.fi
www.evreka.fi

Germany

www.fireball.de
http://crawler.de/
http://search.spray.net/index.jsp
www.multimeta.de
www.speedfind.de
www.twirlix.de
www.nettz.de
www.walhello.com/mainde.html
www.infozoid.com/deutsche/

Greece

www.robby.gr
www.pathfinder.gr
www.phantis.com

India

http://search.forindia.com/
www.rediff.com
http://search.indya.com/

Israel

www.zooloo.co.il/Z_SearchACTACT9.asp?SO=2
http://www.parapara.co.il/ (software library)

Italy

http://search.spray.it/index.jsp
http://websearch.virgilio.it
www.infozoid.com/italiano/
www.ilmotore.com
www.jumpy.it
http://search.supereva.it/

Netherlands

www.walhello.com/mainnl.html
www.metaspider.nl
http://zoek.vinden.nl/
http://web.planet.nl/zoeken/

Norway

http://dpsearchno.spray.net/index.jsp
http://search.sol.no/ or http://kvasir.sol.no/

Poland

http://szukaj.ahoj.pl/

Portugal

http://opiniao.sapo.pt/

Spain/Spanish

http://metabusca.com/
www.eresmas.com or www.alehop.com
www.walhello.com/mainsp.html
http://buscador.ya.com/
www.infozoid.com/espanol/
www.hispavista.com
www.demasiado.com

Sweden

www.evreka.com
www.spray.se/sok/
www.walhello.com/mainse.html

Switzerland

http://sear.ch/
www.surfer.ch
www.search.ch

Thailand

www.thaifind.com
www.thaiseek.com
www.ut9.com/cgi-bin/thaisearch

Turkey

http://arama.turkvista.com/
www.porttakal.com

UK/Europe

www.askalex.co.uk

Search tips at http://www.askalex.co.uk/tips1.htm, although there
http://askalex.co.uk/scripts/getform.exe?par?submit.htm?1

www.mirago.co.uk

at http://www.mirago.co.uk/scripts/longhelp.asp
Basic help at http://www.mirago.co.uk/scripts/srchhelp.asp
Add a URL at http://www.mirago.co.uk/scripts/addsite.asp

www.scoot.co.uk

Help is at http://www.scoot.co.uk/help/help.asp
Add URL at http://www.scoot.co.uk/submit/index.asp

www.searchuk.com

Advanced help is at http://www.searchuk.com/help/advanced.html
Add URL at http://www.searchuk.com/addurl.html
Intelli-search option is at http://www.searchuk.com/cgi-bin/i-search.cgi
A meta-search option is at http://www.searchuk.com/cgi-bin/meta.cgi

www.selu.co.uk

Advanced search at http://www.selu.co.uk/adv_search.html
Add URL page at http://www.selu.co.uk/links.html

www.thomweb.co.uk/uk.thomw/index.htm

Help is at http://www.thomson-directories.co.uk/content/products/contact.htm

www.ukdirectory.co.uk

Add URL at http://www.ukdirectory.co.uk/addurl.html

www.ukindex.co.uk

Add URL at http://www.ukindex.co.uk/urlreg.htm

www.ukmax.com

Advanced search at http://www.ukmax.com/search/, although it's not
Add URL at http://www.ukmax.com/search/default.asp?act.addurl.x=0&act.addurl.y=0

www.ukplus.com

Advanced search at http://www.ukplus.com/html/options.html
Add a site at http://www.ukplus.com/ukplus/owa/pkg_suggest.p_ad_url

www.uksearcher.co.uk

Advanced search at http://www.uksearcher.co.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?action=powersearch
Add URL at http://www.uksearcher.co.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?action=addurl
Help at http://www.uksearcher.co.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl?action=tips

http://uk.searchengine.com/

Advanced search at http://uk.searchengine.com/english/advanced/index.cgi
Help is at http://www.searchengine.com/english/help/index.cgi
Add a URL at http://url.searchengine.com/index.cgi

www.sparksearch.co.uk

Advanced search at http://sparksearch.com/search/advanced.html (but it's not very)
Add URL at http://sparksearch.com/go/add/

www.yell.com

http://world.voila.com/

An English version is at www.voila.com

www.webtop.com

White paper at http://www.webtop.com/search/topferret/wpaper.htm
(Previously www.euroferret.com).

Search Engine translations services

http://www.twics.com/~takakuwa/search/search.html.

http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp [New]

http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn

http://www.google.com/machine_translation.html


Other lists of search engines

www.beaucoup.com

www.websitetrafficbuilders.com/search_engines-url-guide.htm

www.schoollinx.com/Search/Search_Engines/search_engines.html

http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/find/finding.htm

www.17.com/searchag.htm


Search engine related sites

www.apromotionguide.com [New]

http://informant.dartmouth.edu/index.cgi

http://www.karnak.com/whatis.shtml

http://pandecta.com/mother.html [New]

http://searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi

http://searchenginewatch.com/

http://spider-food.net/

http://traffick.com/ [New]

www.webmasterworld.com [New]

List of Ping Services

List of List of Ping websites

The purpose of Ping services is to allow you to automatically notify search engines and blog directories that your blog has been updated. If you get your blog ping in more sites then higher the chances of receiving online web traffic from those SE and directory, so check out the list below and include it on your blog ping sites.

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

Is Income From Google Adsense Is Taxable?

Calculate your Tax Liability on Income from Google Adsense



Indian professionals and website owners are joining a list of their global peers in earning income through sale of advertisements via Google’s AdSense program. But being a new income head, there has been confusion over the tax treatment of such earnings.

google adsense tax


Foremost thing of AdSense receipts for Indian residents is that the income is taxable in India. It can be shown either under the head ‘Income from Business or Profession’ or under ‘Income from other sources’. The deciding factor in this case shall be the nature of work of AdSense publisher. If he is maintaining the blog/ website on regular basis then it can be shown under his professional income while if it is just a part time job and receipts are low, the income can be shown under latter head.

The advantage with showing earnings under Income from profession is that one can claim all expenses related to earning the income as deductions. So, expenses like Telephone/ Broadband expenses, advertisement expenses, books and magazine subscriptions, staff salary expenses, online services, web design, traveling expenses among others would be deducted from professional receipts reducing the tax liability. Apart from this, one can also claim depreciation expenses on purchase of car, computer and other capital items.

Regarding the ledger head, under which AdSense receipts are classified the best option is ‘Professional Receipts - Income from Website‘. There is no need to mention the term Google AdSense in Balance Sheet or Profit & Loss A/c but instead details can be mentioned in each narration entry. Also, keep a stock of all counterfoils of cheques from Google and bank account statements, so that they can used in case of scrutiny by Income Tax authorities.

If you have misplaced the counterfoils that came with AdSense checks, print the statement of earnings from AdSense dashboard.

Another issue that emerges from Google AdSense income is whether the receipts should be shown on accrual basis or cash basis, since earnings for month is normally credited after 2 months. For example, AdSense publisher ‘X’ earns $100 in month of March, then the cheque is made by Google around end of April by converting the $ amount into Indian Rupees at the prevailing exchange rate, which is then sent to the publisher’s Indian address. So normally the cheque would be credited into publisher’s account in May.

For such cases, one can choose either of these two basis, but while choosing cash basis, he has to make sure that only those expenses should be claimed which have been incurred in earning income for that particular month in which expenses are claimed, other wise those expenses shall be disallowed by Income Tax authorities.

Google currently does not have a system of direct credit into Indian bank account unlike Paypal.

Why AdSense publisher is not liable to pay Service Tax?

There are lot of doubts over whether Income from Google AdSense would constitute payment of Service Tax @12.36% since online sale of space for advertisement is taxable under Service Tax.

But the issue is simpler than it seems. The liability of payment of service tax lies with Google and not the blog/site owners. This is because it is Google which sells the advertising space to advertisers through Google AdWords at a rate which is known only to it and publishers only get commission from Google.

As per a ruling, Google is already liable to pay service tax on AdWords at 12.36% and if AdSense publishers also pay 12.36% on AdSense, then this means a quarter of Advertisement revenue would to to the tax officials, spelling a virtual killer for online advertising business in India.


Source : http://www.labnol.org/india/law/calculate-your-tax-liability-on-income-from-google-adsense/1831/

Monday, December 8, 2008

Reason of Showing PSA in Google AdSense (

I've already had some experience with the way adsense works. Oh, and did I mention, I've discovered several AdSense NO-NOs. Oh and I also figured out when and why google displays public service ads. I figured that Google will usually display public service ads in one of the following scenarios:

  1. Your publisher ID is wrong or improper. Or perhaps you did not comply to the google TOS.
  2. You tried to modify the adsense code and accidently screw it up.
  3. Google can't find any ads to match the content in the page.
  4. You did not put the code in the template, and put it in a post instead - The thing that you should keep in mind is always have the adsense in your TEMPLATE ONLY. Don't try and put any adsense code into your posts, because it will not work. Instead you'll just get a ugly ad like the one shown below. Why? because once you post the code through most CMS systems the code will not stay in different lines (the linebrakes between the code will be removed), therefore it wont work.
  5. Google might have "flagged" your page? (see below for more stuff on why I think that might be the case)
  6. There was a hardware malfunction that occured at Google HQ.
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Why google adsense is showing Public service Ads



Google adsense has become a very popular tool for making money from your site by showing advertisements. But sometimes you see PSA - better known as Public Service Ads on your pages. These ads are displayed because adsense has not been able to find suitable ads for your page. Without commiting these 15 Adsense mistakes, here are some ways to remove PSA.

Why Public Service Ads are bad?

  • Most important fact is that there are no payments for clicks on PSA’s. So even if you have a good CTR (click thorugh ratio), it is of no use.
  • It spoils the look of your site. Lets say you decided to place a big 160×600 vertical banner on your site and no ad showed, the PSA ads will have big monocolour fonts since one big ad wil be shown instead of 5 ads there, which looks bad to the surfer.

How to remove Public Service Ads?

  • Develop sufficient good content with keywords on your webpage related to the topic of interest. Google is a great fan of good content websites.
  • Ensure that META tags like ‘title’ & ‘description’ and the headings tags like h1, h2 etc. have content which matches the rest of your site. They are main ways google judges your pages content.
  • Add specific keywords in your text which will help the google bot to determine and understand the content of your website. Repeat related keywords which will better help to understand site content. Do not fill your page with simlar keywords, it might work against your favour.
  • Try to keep the entire website focussed on a particular theme, so that even if the content on a particular page is lesser, the ads wil show.
  • Do not place multiple ad units if there are not suffcient ads to display on all of them. Also Google TOS do not allow placing more than 3 ad units on a page.
  • Use section targeting - you can target an ad unit to a specific section of your blog, as well as block out irrelevant sections like navigational links. Useful to get more targeted ads.

Is your site Still showing Public Service Ads?

  • Google may take time to crawl your site. Although most of the times the ads show immediately, at times it takes upto 48-72 hours for google to assess the content of newly created webpage. This usually occurs if your site has not been indexed before by Google. The time is reduced on newer pages of a site already running adsense. Google claims the ads will get better and more focussed to your pages with time.
  • Your page may contain objectionable content. This may be against Google Adsense policies. If you feel your page has no such content, then look for any objectionable keywords or phrases which may be present accidentaly. Removing such content can cause PSA’s to dissapear.
  • Your site maybe using a robots.txt file, which will may not be properly set up and prevent the AdSense crawler from crawling your web pages. Add the following two lines to the top of your robots.txt file:User-agent: Mediapartners-Google* Disallow:
  • Frames may occasionaly cause difficult in indexing your page. Always remember to tick the Framed page checkbox from the Ad layout code page when generating your ad code. Similarly IFRAME’s also prevent effective indexing and cause PSA’s
  • There may not be any ads configured to show in your region. Lets say that these ads may be working in United States, but maybe showing PSA is Zambia. This is because Google Adwords payers can select regions where to display their ads, where they believe their target surfers are. After all why should an eye surgeon in US want to promote his service in Zambia? Try using the Google Adsense Preview Tool (works on IE only) which helps to determine probable ads in different regions.
  • Recheck your Adsense code was inserted properly on your webpage. Do no attempt to modify the code in any way, as it is against their terms of service. Adsense gives enough options to cutomisethe ad colours and sizes to suit your site. USe only the official code available from their site.
  • Remove session ID’s from urls - they changes every time a different user views a page, and the URL will not be in the indexed everytime.
  • Reduce your filter blocked urls. This feature is in place to allow you to block competitors ads from showing on your pages. If you block too many such urls, there may not be any advertisers left to display ads.
  • Use the Google Adsense Sandbox tool Simply enter the URL or keywords in the box below, and you will see up to 20 sample AdSense ads for the URL or keywords.

Official ways to hide Public Service Ads (PSA)

  • Suggest as altenate colour to display instead of your PSA. This will show an empty space with the background colour you suggest.
  • Suggest an alternate ad to display instead of your PSA. Your ad will show in that space instead of the PSA if their is insufficient content.
  • Place a collapsible ad. This ad will collapse and not show any PSA at all.

Removing google public service ads on adsense

You usually get this when you first added your adsense codes to your site. Its alright to get this during this time as adsense wasn't able to get a cache of your keywords yet. It may take some time to get revenue generating ads on your site specially if your content has less meaningful keywords in it. According to the google help center, it would take approximately 48 hours to remove the Gulf Hurricane Relief ad on your site. If its been there for weeks then your copy might have some problems in it.

Editing robots.txt
There are several ways to remove the PSA from appearing on your site, but the most efficient way is to change your content. First things first, your robots.txt might have been configured to disallow adsense crawlers from visiting your site. If you are able to edit your robots.txt file, you may add the following code below:

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

Avoid iFrames or Frames
If you have placed your adsense code in an iFrame then the crawler will have no way of getting relevant keywords thus displaying in the Public Service Ads. Google crawlers will have a hard time figuring out which content to get for the ads inside frames so its best not to place your ads in a separate frame or simply avoid using frames on your site just to be safe.

Choose your content wisely
Content is the most important factor in determining the adsense ads that is displayed on your website. the more content you the greater chances of getting a relevant ad. Make sure you have enough content for the crawler to read. Also, the google crawler can't read images, audio files, flash content, java applets or anything except plain text. If you have a small amount of content and you have set your ads to display only images then this might be the reason for displaying only PSA ads. Try changing your adsense codes to display text and images ads.

Negative Keywords
Avoid negative keywords, this includes anything that is related to d%ath, sickness, p%rnography, dr%gs, etc. At anytime avoid mentioning these words on all of your content, but opps there you go i have just listed them here anyway.

Avoid automatic refresh
If yous page contains the HTML auto refresh code, it might also be the reason why your site is displaying public service ads. Remove the meta refresh code from your page and observe if the PSA ads have been removed. The meta refresh code looks like this one below, remove them:

meta ="Refresh"

Adsense ad in a login page
Placing ads on a page that requires user access does not allow the google crawler to visit the page to get the relevant keywords therefore displaying public service ads instead. Avoid placing adsense code behind a login page.

Avoid Session Ids on URLs
Adsense also relies heavily on the URL to display relevant ads. Having a session id on the url confuses the crawler to ad a relevant keyword because your URL keeps on changing. You may use the input type hidden HTML attribute instead of placing the session id in the urls

Unsupported localization
If you site is displaying other language aside from English then this might be the reason why its displaying public service ads. Here's a list of country currently supported by adsense.
Arabic
Bulgarian
Chinese (simplified)
Chinese (traditional)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

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