Weekly SEO news: 5 January 2016
Welcome to the first issue of the Search Engine Facts newsletter in 2016.

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Andre Voget, Johannes Selbach, Axandra CEO

1. Are the tweets about your company positive, negative, or neutral?

Chances are that people are talking about your company and your products on Twitter. Are their comments positive, negative, or neutral? The Social Network Monitor in our web-based Internet marketing tool SEOprofiler helps you to to react quickly to customer comments.

Step 1: specify the words that you want to monitor:

Enter the keywords, brand names, company names, etc. that you want to monitor. You can also monitor blogs that are related to your business.

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Step 2: see who's talking about your company and your products

social network monitor

In addition to Twitter, the social media inbox monitor also enables you to monitor your favorite blogs. You can answer all posts by clicking the "Reply" link in the Social Network Monitor in SEOprofiler.

It's easy, it's fast and it's efficient.

Find the most important posts quickly and easily

You can find the most popular tweets by sorting them by the amount of retweets or favorites. You can also filter messages that contain particular keywords, get the messages from people who have the most followers, sort the messages by sentiment and find particular authors.

The comprehensive filters in the social media inbox monitor help you to do this as efficiently as possible.

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The Social Network Monitor is only one of many powerful website promotion tools that you get with SEOprofiler. If you haven't done it yet, try it now:

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2. Search engine news and articles of the week
Bing powers AOL search

"As of Jan. 1, Bing powers AOL’s web, mobile, and tablet search, providing paid search ads and algorithmic organic search results to AOL’s properties worldwide. All major Bing Ads ad products are enabled for AOL search traffic worldwide to provide marketers with additional high-quality volume and ways to reach their desired audience."


GoogleGoogle: capital letters in URLs aren't a problem

In an online discussion, Google's John Mueller said that capital letters in URLs do not influence the rankings of the page.

Editor's note: White capital letters do not influence the rankings of a page, they make it more difficult for users to enter the URL in a web browser.


Google testing new style of local home services ads

"Google is testing a new style of home service ads, one that doesn’t highlight potential businesses in the search results page, but uses a form instead. [...]

It has the option to submit a zip code and also features a drop down menu to select the type of job needing to be done."

GoogleGoogle NCR (no country redirection) feature stop working but Google may bring it back

"We emailed Google as we saw the complaints to get a response, but Google did not respond to our inquiry as of yet. However, I did see Google’s John Mueller, who is tasked with webmaster communication, respond to the inquiry on Twitter saying “I suspect it’ll be back.” Meaning, John Mueller of Google thinks this is a weird bug and Google will fix the /ncr feature in the upcoming days or weeks."


Google ramps up EU lobbying as antitrust charges proceed

"The company's spending on European lobbying has increased from just €600,000 in 2011 to nearly €4 million ($4.3 million) last year. That's more than Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter and Uber combined, but less than the search giant's arch-rival, Microsoft."


Search engine newslets

  • Google Photos app install interstitials are Google penalty worthy.
  • Twitter: Fighting abuse to protect freedom of expression.
  • DuckDuckGo has millions of searchers.
3. Recommended resources

SEOprofiler

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  • automatic weekly website audits
  • tools for keyword research and analysis
  • competitive intelligence tools
  • automated ranking checks
  • website analytics
  • tools for spam-free link building
  • link disinfection tool
  • social media monitoring
  • white-label reports (web-based and PDF)
  • AdWords Profiler and Ranking Profiler
  • and much more.

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