Today BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO platform, released a report on the adoption of social sharing plugins on websites and links to those sites. The findings show that about half of the top 10,000 websites have a link to their Facebook pages from their home page, 40% link to their Twitter pages and when it comes to like buttons, Google+ is now second place to Facebook.

Launched at the end of March, Google’s +1 button — big G’s social endorsement equivalent to a Facebook Like — is already carving out a niche for itself according to research from social-infused SEO platform BrightEdge. Four percent of the top 10,000 sites have added a +1 button to their homepages, up 33% since the beginning of June.

Working on the agency side of search for many years has taught me some valuable lessons. I’ve been privileged to work with the best and brightest, and by turns, saddled to work with the worst and dullest. I’ve seen a little bit of everything: those that get it, those that don’t, and those that don’t know what to get!

Almost two weeks out in the wild, how well is Google’s little social network doing? So well, one might say, that Twitter should be a little worried.

Google's +1 buttons have only been out for about a month, but they're already more common than the tweet button on major web destinations.

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.