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Google 'Search Plus Your World' And You!

Google rolled out its biggest update to search with ‘Search Plus Your World’. The new search results allow users to find public information and privately shared content through a single search. Results now include Public web listings, Public Google+ and Picasa posts and photos, ...

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What is Google Secure Search?

So, what is Google secure search? On Tuesday October 18, 2011, Google announced that users logged into Google would see their organic queries default to HTTPS (Secure HTTP) instead of HTTP. This is described by Google as an enhancement to protect the privacy of users. Paid search is not impacted at...

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BrightEdge Announces New SEO Solution

Today, BrightEdge announced the launch of BridgeEdge S3 - the first SEO platform to enable social signal tracking and monitoring to support user driven marketing campaigns. BrightEdge S3 is offered in response to an industry-wide shift in how marketing is traditionally done. “The Internet...

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BrightEdge Weekly Search Recap – 6/10

This week's search news includes some different tips for SEO, branding on Facebook, SEO ranking factors and a take on the Google vs. Facebook debate. BrightEdge and Facebook also released an exciting Whitepaper about social SEO. Here are the top 10: #1. Facebook Best Practices for Social...

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BrightEdge and comScore Boost Competitive Intelligence for SEO

Greetings everyone! We are proud to announce that we have partnered with comScore to provide a deeper level of competitive intelligence into our SEO platform. Our Integration with comScore brings forth competitive intelligence information straight from comScore Marketer into our platform, enabling...

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Tag Your SEO Events With Our Exciting New Feature!

We are constantly adding new features to BrightEdge, and I’m excited to announce that we have added the capability to flag events in your SEO reports very similar to Event Tracking in Google Analytics. You can now enter notes to flag significant changes and events to your pages, sites, or...

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Google +1

As many of you already know, Google recently introduced a new feature, the Google +1 button. When you are logged in and searching Google, the +1 button will appear next to search results. You can click on the button to share pages that you think are "pretty cool.” When your friends search on...

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BrightEdge and blekko Partner to Fight Against Web Spam

Today we are proud to announce that BrightEdge and blekko have partnered to deliver new powerful capabilities in the world of SEO. This is the first time that a search engine has partnered with an SEO platform and we are  excited at the possibilities opened by this new type of partnership....

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BrightEdge New Features March 2011

I'm very excited to announce some of the new features that we have incorporated into BrightEdge. If you are a BrightEdge customer, you should have received a more detailed description by email.  Of course, your  Customer Success manager is available anytime if you have any questions....

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The Story of BrandSafe

By now, I’m sure most of you know all too well the story David Segal of The New York Times had to share with us: On early morning Wednesday February 9th J.C. Penney was the King of the hill when it came to search engine ranking results. They were #1 for multiple keywords such as “living room...