A study by BrightEdge finds that sites with social media sharing buttons get more exposure.
BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO platform, has released a report on the links from social networks to the top 10,000 websites and their adoption of social sharing plugins. The findings, which compared data from June 2011 and July 2011, show that Facebook and Twitter are both doing very well. Facebook has a clear edge though, while Google already shows signs of being able to seriously compete.
A new report from Bright Edge suggests that featuring social share plug-ins, such as Twitter's retweet button, on a brand's website may encourage more visitor interaction.
Google social lead Vic Gundrota apologized to Google + users for a site malfunction that caused the network to spam them over the weekend.
According to one set of analytics, the Google+ social network has resulted in such rapid adoption of a "+1" button on websites that it's outclassed sharing stalwart Twitter already. Here's why that matters--only a little.
Web pages that include Twitter share buttons and links are seven times more likely to be mentioned in tweets, according to a new study by SEO firm BrightEdge. Yet 57.5 percent of the top 10,000 Web sites do not include Twitter buttons, BrightEdge found.
A study from BrightEdge examining the prevalence of social plugins on the home pages of major sites shows that Facebook is still the most dominant social button on the web. Google +1, however, is growing quickly, having seen a 28 percent increase in adoption over the last month.
Google+ is not even two weeks old yet and is already becoming a social networking favorite among early adopters.
A study has found that Google's +1 button is now more common than Twitter's tweet button on the home pages of the 10,000 largest sites. In fact, the +1 button is now on 4.4% of those sites' front pages -- a 33% increase from a month ago, according to search-engine optimization company BrightEdge.
Sites that have implemented a Twitter "tweet" button are seven times more likely to have their content shared, a report from BrightEdge said Thursday.