San Mateo, CA-based BrightEdge is today taking the wraps of its enterprise-class, on-demand SEO platform, after hammering on it for the past couple of years along with some early adopting key customers such as MySpace, Symantec and VMware.

Jim Yu, founder and CEO of enterprise-class SEO platform BrightEdge (which launched as the company emerged from stealth mode last summer) sits down at the discussion table.

Enterprise SEO platform BrightEdge announced Thursday morning that it’s expanding its platform globally to give customers a new international reach. Using the new platform, which presumably adapts to different search algorithms among various regions across the globe, companies and brands can now manage their rank in search properties across various countries and markets.

It only took them six months to go global: BrightEdge, which introduced its SEO platform in June 2010, has enabled its software to reach nearly every market worldwide. The updated platform will allow SEO professionals to manage their organic search rank on search properties in a multitude of locales.

San Mateo, CA-based BrightEdge is taking its enterprise-class, on-demand SEO platform global today. Originally founded in 2007 by former Salesforce.com exec Jim Yu and Lemuel Park, BrightEdge provides online marketers with cloud-based SEO software designed to help them increase revenue from organic search in a measurable way.

JC Penney gets put in purgatory at Google for link farming. AT&T, Siemens and others are buying SEO links on Forbes and get busted. Employees of these brands may or may not have known exactly what was going on. But I’m guessing more than a few execs were unpleasantly surprised by the news.

BrightEdge is integrating social signals into its enterprise-class SEO platform to identify prime social opportunities as well as social media strategies that positively effect organic search rankings.

BrightEdge an 'enterprise SEO platform' has added a new module to it's closed loop analytics engine that helps brands to identify and predict the impact of social media on search engine optimization (SEO). The system also creates a prioritizes list of suggested actions to take and enables online marketing tams to create a delegate tasks based on the data whilst, crucially, reporting on the return on investment (ROI) for SEO & Social media work on those particular keywords or pages - with ranking improvements as the final indicator.

BrightEdge, a search engine optimization management (SEO) platform, said today it has become the first such platform to become fully social in a bid to help marketers optimize their social media activity, Jim Yu, founder and chief executive, told VentureBeat.

n the wake of JC Penney’s link farming issue on Google, SEO firm BrightEdge released to a free auditing tool that tells brands about the quality of the backlinks to their sites and whether they may be at risk from paid links and link farms. It’s been over two weeks since the tool was released and BrighEdge has analyzed audits for more than 1,000 brands.