Friday, May 24th, 2013

, an SEO software platform which prides itself on having an open technology platform has teamed up with comScore to bring panel-based competitive data to it’s SEO tool set.

BrightEdge has offered competitive analytics for SEO for a while now. Much like many other SEO platforms such as Searchmerics, Optify and Conductor, BrightEdge has focussed primarily on using closed-loop analytics to mesh two different data sets together to measure the impact of SEO tactics on search rankings.

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However, this latest data collaboration closes the data loop on traffic targeting by tie-ing ranking opportunities and traffic estimations to real behavioral data.

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.